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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277623
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers … we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268868
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Tax Rates with Corruption: Labour-market Effects. Empirical Cross-country Comparisons on OECD Countries
Lackó, Mária - 2006
The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of the segments of the labour market such as unemployment, employment, self-employment and activity in the hidden economy. The novelty of our approach is the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494350
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey: seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando Antonio; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2008
produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276777
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Intergenerational returns to migration? Comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee Reichl - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288921
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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326500
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
differences between migrants and natives are larger in the German region. Building on this, the paper begins with a comparison of … show returns to factors of wage-earning migrants are lower in the German region for a preponderant majority of migrant … approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316778
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262777
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Do immigrants take the jobs of native workers?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271242