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Do immigrants reduce natives' wages? : evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 1997
. However, the effects of immigration on the wages of natives are numerically very small. Separability tests show that the use …This paper investigates the effects of immigration on the wages of native workers in Germany. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577475
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Do minimum wages induce immigration? : the minimum wage affects international migration flows and the internal relocation of immigrants
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
immigration, contrasting evidence shows that immigrants are less likely to move into areas with higher or more frequent increases … in the US for several years, who are more likely to move in response to higher minimum wages, and by new immigrants, who …
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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
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2005
. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003238617
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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The analytics of the wage effect of immigration
Borjas, George J. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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The Supply of Foreign Talent : How Skill-Biased Technology Drives the Skill Mix of Immigrants Evidence From Switzerland 1990– 2010
Beerli, Andreas - 2019
An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865976
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity : A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318050
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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036439
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017
An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774852