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low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
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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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In this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on fifteen Western European countries during the 1996-2010 period. We find that immigrants, by taking manual-routine type of occupations pushed natives towards more complex (abstract and...
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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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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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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant …
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Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
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We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low-wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...
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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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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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