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The cyclicality of immigrant wages and labour market flows : evidence from Spain
Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 16 (2022) 1, pp. 90-122
for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …
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Coming to America: does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Belton, Willie - 2009
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271235
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Coming to America : does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Belton, Willie James - 2009
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846995
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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159510
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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501434
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The Nordic Labor Market and Migration
Ho, Giang - 2016
institutions while also adding to potential growth. This paper examines the trends, economic drivers, and labor market implications … will cushion the decline in labor supply from population aging, in the near-term unemployment can rise, especially among … the young and lower-skilled. The analysis highlights the need to adapt Nordic labor market institutions in a manner that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998796
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Divergent Trends in Citizenship Rates Among Immigrants in Canada and the United States
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2012
This paper addresses two issues. First: among immigrants, is there a labour market benefit associated with becoming a citizen of the host country, in this case Canada or the United States? Recent international research indicates that there is an economic return to acquiring citizenship. Second:...
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Does immigration help alleviate economy-wide labour shortages?
Fortin, Pierre - 2024
curve, which draws the classical inverse relation between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate, before, during …
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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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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376490