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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 wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health
Giuntella, Osea - 2014
Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …
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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes
Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015
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...
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Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John D.; Nolan, Brian - 2000
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. …
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How relevant is the origin of human capital for immigrant wages? Evidence from Spain
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - In: Journal of applied economics 18 (2015) 1, pp. 149-172
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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Revisiting the labor demand curve : the wage effects of immigration and women's entry into the US labor force, 1960 - 2010
De Brauw, Alan; Russell, Joseph R. D. - 2014
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Immigration and two-component unemployment
Albert, Max; Meckl, Jürgen - 2002
We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to … those of a rise in the minimum wage. For plausible parameter values, immigration raises employment of the home labor force …
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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives
Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014
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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Explaining cross-country differences in labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD
Bergh, Andreas - 2014
In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...
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