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Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As a result, the nation is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world and putting its rich biodiversity at risk. Although the literature discussing the political...
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Abstract: Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As a result, the nation is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world and is putting its rich biodiversity at risk. Although the literature discussing...
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The closure of borders between countries in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 suspended the flows of the international labor migration, thus creating risks to the agriculture, particularly, fruit farming and horticulture. In this survey, the information is presented on the...
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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introduced in August 2012 - has affected entry-level wages of non-EU migrants in Germany. The Blue Card was targeted at non … the Blue Card increases entry-level wages of non-EU graduates relative to the control group by approximately 2 percent of … the pre-treatment entry-level wages. We provide suggestive evidence that these results are not driven by more or better …
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, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …
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This paper investigates the effects of immigration on the wages of native workers in Germany. The analysis …. However, the effects of immigration on the wages of natives are numerically very small. Separability tests show that the use …
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