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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2020
Costa Rica experienced in recent years increasing international migration from neighboring countries due to political …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …
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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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Labor migration in the European Union : the case of Central and Eastern Europe
Schneider, Ondřej - 2021
This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …
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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017
Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...
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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration
Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a...
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478982
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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000
Freire, Tiago - 2011
It is generally accepted that migration will lead to an increase in income. However the question is how will income be … international migration in developed countries. To the best of our knowledge this is the rst study to look at the impact of rural …-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …
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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...
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