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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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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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Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … rents as well as higher productivity, wages, and education levels. We examine whether today's economic differences across the … estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and hourly wages by around 10%. …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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