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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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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...
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capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …
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This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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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 … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data …
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The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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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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