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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286158
-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … Carolina over a 15 year period. The wage elasticity of unemployed domestic workers' relative labor supply is 0.0015. This … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage …
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-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives … employment. These average effects mask considerable heterogeneity across groups: while younger natives experience larger wage … of immigration but can be accounted for by a model that allows for a larger labor supply elasticity or a higher degree of …
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Peri and Yasenov (2019) exploit a natural experiment, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, to analyse the impact of immigration …
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We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market … immigrants, on the other hand, are ambiguous and depend first on the presence of a statutory minimum wage and second on the way … that this minimum wage is determined …
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This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … downward wage pressure, pressure to move out of the state or increased likelihood to loose their jobs, California was the place … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …
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