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Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs, as they are more inclined to take on physically intensive tasks …
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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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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market … (search cost) between immigrants and natives. Within such a framework, we .find that skilled native workers, who complement …
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diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to … same linguistic background as natives. This, in turn, produced heterogeneous effects on natives wages and employment. While … natives entering the labor market after the policy change. This is likely the result of different patterns of complementarity …
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immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational … admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the … world, and this has resulted in both negative and positive outcomes for the natives. In this essay, the effect of …
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in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse … effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …
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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and … likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for selfemployed natives. The … might help explain the higher incidence of selfemployment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … changing labor shortages across EU member states, occupations and sectors more fluidly than natives. This effect is especially …
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