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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers … into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact that immigration and …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …
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heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication, movers increasingly rely on an enlarged community for identity …
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In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …
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This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor market outcomes and healthcare utilization. The evidence is based on data for 1999 from the first wave of the Swiss Household Panel. In order to control for confounding...
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In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We …
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This paper analyzes the effects of recent Venezuelan immigration to Colombia on the fiscal balance, the labor market … in the labor market. The higher fiscal spending to address immigration negatively impacts the government's budget in the …
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We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels … settlements together with time variation in female immigration inflows, we find that female immigration is associated with a …
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