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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states

König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU countries in December 2008. The changes have led to increased labour … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

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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 wages

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...

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

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Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities : updated version

Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017

This paper provides empirical evidence that individual labor productivity significantly depends on the size of the local labor market in which a worker previously acquired work experience. The analysis uses German micro data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) on transitions to...

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...

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