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The impact of immigration on occupational wages : evidence from Britain
Nickell, Stephen J. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus among academics that the share of immigrants in the workforce has little or no effect on the pay rates of the indigenous population. But the studies in the literature have...
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The impact of unskilled immigration on local labour markets
Lumpe, Christian; Weigert, Benjamin - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908498
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The impact of immigration on occupational wages : evidence from Britain
Nickell, Stephen J.; Saleheen, Jumana - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546329
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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Financial liberalization and the selection of emigrants : a cross-national analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 47 (2014) 1, pp. 199-226
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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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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …
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