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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …
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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012
Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...
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Immigration and the occupational choice of natives : a factor proportions approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125651
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Skill mismatches in the EU : immigrants vs. natives
Nieto, Sandra; Matano, Alessia; Ramos, Raúl - 2013
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
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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The Wage Impact of Immigration in Germany : New Evidence for Skill Groups and Occupations
Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2009
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the adequate technique to identify the impact of immigration …. Initially the regression analysis on the basis of education-experience cells reveals that the impact of immigration on native … classification criterion may lead to an underestimation of the impact of immigration …
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179424