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This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants … different immigration histories. In both countries, immigrants tend to find their first jobs in low-paying establishments, where … are consistent with the hypothesis that the host country's immigration history plays a limited role in shaping the …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...
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This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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