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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 …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …
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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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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market …
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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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Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...
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gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about a third of gig workers. Migrants take up gig jobs due to a lack of … income or other job opportunities much more often than natives, who mostly do it for autonomy. Migrants' job quality is … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also …
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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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