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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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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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Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, 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 exploit the...
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
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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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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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effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …
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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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