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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...
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workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy …
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This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...
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This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...
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proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effects on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English …
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proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effects on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English …
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