Showing 1 - 10 of 419
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431716
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415080
demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995067
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623961
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616847
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569365
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554910
somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336875
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460885