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. However, the effects of immigration on the wages of natives are numerically very small. Separability tests show that the use …This paper investigates the effects of immigration on the wages of native workers in Germany. The analysis …
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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 and Lewis' study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …
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prospects. This finding suggests that firms enjoy cost savings from employing lower-paid undocumented at workers wages less than …
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In 2007 the Commission proposed a Directive aimed exclusively at third-country nationals moving to Europe for the purpose of highly qualified employment that would set up a harmonized entry procedure, lay down common residence conditions and facilitate mobility through Europe. The Directive,...
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This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1) intensive initial language training, (2)work practice under...
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Internal migration flows from rural to urban areas have greatly contributed to population declines in many rural areas across both Europe and the US. At the same time there is mounting evidence for a tight connection between internal migration and shifts in labor demand, with the latter being...
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We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
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Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are … further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers have significantly lower labor supply elasticity, likely as a result …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of …
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