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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wages

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...

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Immigrants' wage growth and selective out-migration

Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2014

previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …

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Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers

Gatti, Nicolò; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Parchet, Raphaël; … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the...

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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia

Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024

We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

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Labour market progression of Canadian immigrant women

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014

We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the labour market and experiencing little career...

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Explaining the male native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden : the role of human capital and migrant categories

Bevelander, Pieter; Luik, Marc-André; Emilsson, Henrik - 2016

migrants suffer from low transferability of their country specific human capital. The article highlights the need to consider …

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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28

Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...

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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the endogenous age of entry in estimating the...

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