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Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2022

results are consistent with empirical evidence on immigration and a gender pay gap, and provide new testable implications. …

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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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Does sectoral diversification matter? The impact of Syrian refugees on Germany's labor market

Kilic, Tugce - 2025

This study investigates how the economic structure of host regions shapes the labor market impacts of refugee inflows, focusing on the case of the Syrian refugee influx into Germany in 2014-2015. Utilizing a fuzzy difference-in-differences approach, the analysis introduces a novel measure of...

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Herd effects or migration networks? The location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...

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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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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 … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …

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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …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 …

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Economic fluctuations and retirement of older employees

Hallberg, Daniel - 2008

This paper studies the way in which labor market fluctuations affect the transition to early retirement among older employees in Sweden via the practice of negotiated pensions. The results indicate that downturns (upturns) in aggregated industry employment increases (decreases) the probability...

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The changing role of employer pensions: Tax expenditures, costs, and implications for middle-class elderly

Ghilarducci, Teresa - 2006

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The effect of age-targeted tax credits on retirement behavior

Laun, Lisa - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged 65 or above at the beginning of the tax year. The...

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