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we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on … wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published …
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We analyse the effect of workforce composition by birthplace in Austrian firms on workers' wages. In our model, each … worker's productivity may depend on whether the co-workers are of the same or of a different birthplace and wages depend … testable hypotheses about the effect of co-worker birthplace on wages using a stylised model of intra-firm spill-overs across …
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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 …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from …
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outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives? wages … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …
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This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some notable … immigration inflows, we follow the structural skill-cell approach as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and Peri …
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Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …
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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …
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shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …
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