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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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wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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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 paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …
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immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent … and decrease wages of incumbent foreigners by about 9 percent. Across the different model specifications the negative …
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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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