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disproportionately incarcerated. The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that …
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Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
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home country. The degree of assimilation and the strength of the networks do not just happen", but are the outcomes of …
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local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the … size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities, has on the assimilation process of the migrants. …
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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 … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less educated …
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on … natives. We find that in the considered period immigration did not produce significant migratory response or loss of jobs of …
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Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into new metropolitan areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card...
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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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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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