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immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers--and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …
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Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic whites and blacks. We focus on adults who have not finished high … Latino teenagers, although it is smaller for foreign- than native-born Latinos. Adult Latino immigrants' earnings are less … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278347
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not … immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health … Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …
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evidence on the subject, which reaches several conclusions. First, immigrants are overrepresented in occupations and industries … with higher injury and fatality rates. Second, immigrants have higher work-related injury and fatality rates in some … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …
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immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers - and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421987
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not … immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health … Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381863
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not … immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health … Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884129
average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital …This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822905
Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic whites and blacks. We focus on adults who have not finished high … Latino teenagers, although it is smaller for foreign- than native-born Latinos. Adult Latino immigrants’ earnings are less … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756381
immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers--and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115277