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We document a slowdown in low-skilled immigration that began around the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with a subsequent rise in low-skilled wages, a decline in the skill premium, and labor shortages in service occupations. Falling returns to education also coincided...
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1. International migration -- 2. Immigration and prices -- 3. Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China -- 4. International Competition Intensified -- 5. Effects of Remittance Behavior on the Lives of Recent Immigrants to Canada from the Philippines -- 6. Gender pay...
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Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...
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Providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual's socioeconomic background is a major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still...
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This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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countries in EU. Although virulent discrimination does not occur on the Romanian labor market, this phenomenon may delay the … main forms of discrimination at the regional level based on the following indicators: the Duncan Index at local level; rate … discrimination by sex, nationality, and age; wage gap and occupational segregation by gender. They will also assess the effects of …
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