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The impact of technological change on immigration and immigrants
Giesing, Yvonne - 2023
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants versus natives. We analyse and compare the effects of two different automation technologies: Industrial robots and artificial intelligence. We exploit data provided by the...
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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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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206892
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325102
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017
national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the …
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Endogenous technology, matching, and labor unions : does low-skilled immigration affect the technological alignment of the host country?
Cords, Dario - 2017
especially examines how immigration affects the technology choice of firms and, thereby, the technological alignment of the host … shown that low-skilled immigration encourages firms to invest more in a basic technology, which leads to a deterioration of … the technology level in the whole economy. It can be further shown that policies, which improve the access of already …
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...
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European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement : is there a change in immigrant self-selection?
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 18 October 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632213
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The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages
Barcellos, Silvia - 2010
There is considerable debate in the literature about the effects of immigration on workers' labor market outcomes. This paper presents a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US...
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