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This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …
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successful migrants leave. Empirical evidence reveals that both low-income-earning and high-income-earning migrants leave the …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Does increasing a state’s minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in response to welfare benefit differentials across states, yet few have examined the minimum wage as a cause of mobility. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically...
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for Germans who are in the upper end of the income distribution. “Rich” self-employed Germans enjoy a wage premium …
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Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321257
As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001510633
impact of immigration on Spanish natives' income by estimating the net immigration surplus accruing at the national level and …
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