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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
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Does immigration affect native wages? : a meta-analysis
Nedoncelle, Clément; Marchal, Léa; Aubry, Amandine; … - 2024
The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …
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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?
Gana, Rajaram - 2018
I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …) that reduces the wages of native workers. Specifically, the indication was that the proportion of immigrant workers (p) is …
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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45
aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my … local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …
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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2016
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595845
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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110855
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Limits to Wage Growth : Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Jain, Apoorva - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950909
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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes
Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495036
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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes
Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demircioğlu, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507087