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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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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 … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …
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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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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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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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understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …
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The NEER Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets Data Files were developed from public data sources to facilitate … industry-based and area-based research on the effects of international trade and immigration on labor markets in the United …
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the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …
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