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We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...
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Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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indicate that immigration differentially impacts native worker wages across skill sets. In particular, for a 10% increase in … the deployment of a lower level skill like mopping the floor or driving a truck. Disciplined immigration will not harm the …
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243097
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …
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We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other …, which contains information on height and weight for 2004 and 2006, along with immigration status and labor market outcomes …. This was a period of increased immigration to the UK resulting in large part from the accession of new EU member states …
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Two distinct issues are addressed. First, we explore earnings and employment outcome differences across categories of the immigrant selection system and directly link the points system to these outcomes, which is relatively rare in Canadian research. Second, the appropriateness of alternative...
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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