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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … where these effects should have been stronger. By analyzing the behavior of population, employment and wages of U.S. natives … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …
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particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …
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explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less educated … educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might …
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natives may be reallocating their labor supply into non-predominant Mexican occupations. An analysis of employment changes of … natives into different occupation groupings in response to an inflow of Mexican immigrants, confirms that natives' employment …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …
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-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially … important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …
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We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...
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This paper presents some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Complementing studies by Chau (2001, 2003), Karlson and Katz (2003) and Gang and Yun (2006), we consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border...
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We describe the short- and long-term patterns of labour market entry and integration among Non-Western, predominantly non-labour, immigrants to Sweden. Our main sample considers the 1990-2014 period. The patterns of time to first contact and labour market entry vary with business cycle...
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