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Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …
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of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …
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In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non … of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … 2000. We find that all European countries experienced a decrease in their average wages and a worsening of their wage …
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This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U … impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born workers can be evaluated only by accounting carefully for labor market and capital … most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers within a decade. These two facts imply a positive and …
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immigration on wages in a local labor market by 40 to 60 percent, depending on whether the labor market is defined at the state or …This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage …-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher out-migration rates …
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natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …
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workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … between 1960 and 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants …
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outcomes of the four race/sex groups that we consider. Our estimates of the effect of immigration on the wages of less …This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a … simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between …
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