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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …
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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …
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existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration's impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …
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