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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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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 … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …
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Task specialization, immigration, and wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
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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The effects of immigration on California's labor market
Peri, Giovanni - 2006
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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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …
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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - 2000
of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant …
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What Are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas; Gang, Ira; Epstein, Gil - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
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The Role of Foreign Networks for Firm Export of Services
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2015
export. The skill level of foreignborn workers and the time that has elapsed since immigration also impact the degree to …
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Informal incentives, labor supply, and the effect of immigration on wages
Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2021
new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …
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