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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within …

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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes

Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Does emigration increase the wages of non-emigrants in sending countries? : emigration can increase the wages of non-emigrants, but may eventually lead to lower productivity and wa...

Elsner, Benjamin - 2015

affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …

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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 … 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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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States

Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

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Labour immigration and union strength

Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018

To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...

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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : synthetic control method meets the Mariel Boatlift

Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2017

departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

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