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Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - 2022

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant's first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument for...

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The effect of ethnic clustering on migrant integration in Germany : conference paper

Treude, Barbara - 2014

probability of immigrants, and for second or higher generation migrants, a positive impact of clustering on wages. …

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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

analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …

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Do migrants lower workplace wages?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017

and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …

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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2005

Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...

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Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2010

GDP across countries has opposite and significant effects on the number and quality of migrants to the United States …

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The Immigrant and Native-Born Wage Distributions : Evidence from United States Censuses

Butcher, Kristin F.; DiNardo, John E. - 2003

Recent studies document a large widening of the immigrant/native-born mean wage gap since about 1970, a trend that some observers ascribe to post-1965 changes in U.S. immigration policy. These studies are limited, however, by their exclusive focus on men, which ignores important gender...

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Skill Transferability and Immigrant-Native Wage Gaps

Rosso, Anna - 2017

average wages of Eastern European migrants in the UK results from a large decrease in wage levels at the top of the …

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Wage Differentials between Native, Immigrant and Cross-Border Workers : Evidence and Model Comparisons

Van Kerm, Philippe - 2015

This paper exploits a parametric variant of the Machado-Mata simulation methodology to examine wage distribution differences between native and foreign workers in Luxembourg. Relying on ‘parametric quantile regression' in place of repeated linear quantile regressions cuts computing time...

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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?

Gana, Rajaram - 2018

I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...

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