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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654461
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in …
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is that the small sizes of many local labor markets induces large measurement errors in the share of immigrants and … differentiation and integrated national markets has predictions on the employment effect of immigrants at the local (state) level … substitutability-complemetariety between natives and immigrants and infer whether, other things constant, immigrants stimulate or …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …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 …
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locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the culture and the national identity of the host country. We use a search … culture or the immigrants take on the natives' culture. In the first case we will see new cultures developing and the local … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation …
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We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent … than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …
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This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and …
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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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