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employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period … suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment …
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In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean municipalities from 2010-2015 on the internal migration of natives. Using Korean survey data we are able to distinguish between natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons....
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employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …
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Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training for adult refugees and improved their economic...
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employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact … that, after controlling for education and experience levels, native and migrant workers appear to be imperfect substitutes …
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24% of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries …
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increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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innovation and technological adoption, the main drivers of productivity growth in the U.S. In this paper we identify the effect … of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …
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