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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
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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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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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703250
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318255
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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 national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774852
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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015
enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …
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Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers
Gatti, Nicolò; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Parchet, Raphaël; … - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the...
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment and Wages of Native Workers
Palivos, Theodore; Chassamboulli, Andri - 2022
We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income (search cost) between immigrants and natives. Within...
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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