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the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … the variance of the foreigner share across region for identifying the wage and employment effects of immigration, tend to …
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...
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Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
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-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …
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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three … investigated. The results indicate significant differences in the extent to which regional economies are affected by immigration …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
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This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …
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