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Labour market programmes and geographical mobility: migration and commuting among programme participants and openly unemployed

Lindgren, Urban; Westerlund, Olle - 2003

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour … than the openly unemployed. In this case, this is due to the relatively higher probability of commuting that predominates …

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Labor share decline across US manufacturing sub-sectors: 1979-2019

Sarangi, Swayamsiddha - 2023

This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is decomposed into contributions from real wage growth,...

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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2008

Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...

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Immigration and Distribution of Wages in Austria

Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2011

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 as the wage level. While there are small , but...

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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration

Mayr, Karin - 2008

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, we derive a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, where natives require a compensating wage differential for working in one...

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Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital from a Planned to a Market Economy

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

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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EU Blue Card: A promising tool among labour migration policies? A comparative analysis of selected countries

Bellini, Simona - 2016

Directive and their comparison with the ones posed by the national labour migration schemes - in particular in Germany, Sweden …

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Equal treatment for highly qualified labour migrants

Herzfeld Olsson, Petra - 2019

According to EU-law, third country national labour migrants shall be treated equally to local workers with regard to wages. The aim of this working paper is to clarify whether Swedish law meets this demand with regard to highly qualified labour migrants. The analysis reveals that the combined...

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The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market

Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kırdar, Murat Güray - 2018

heterogeneity of effects by age and education, are consistent with the implications of the canonical migration model. In addition …

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Task specialization, immigration, and wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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