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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

that immigrants with lower unobserved skills and with a higher unobserved propensity to migrate early have a faster …

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

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...

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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Constant, Amelie F. - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...

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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

educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local … demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …

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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013

The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...

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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?

Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...

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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020

Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...

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International students, immigration and earnings growth : the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-24

-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … experience before immigration added only a small or no earnings gain after immigration for Canadian-educated immigrants. …

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