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We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market … immigrants in production, gain in terms of both wages and employment. The effects on unskilled native workers, who compete with …
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in … Germany, using novel German administrative data. Applying proportional hazard models, our estimates generally support the …
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated …
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-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However … the UK and combine the British and the European Labour Force Surveys to analyse whether immigration to the UK has changed … of immigration into the UK of people from Eastern European countries, and how these trends compare to trends in …
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There is considerable debate in the literature about the effects of immigration on workers' labor market outcomes. This … paper presents a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector … autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US states shows that immigration does not have a significant effect on wages or …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less … is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
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-random occurrence of terrorist attacks in the home country relative to the timing of interviews and job separations in Germany. We show … remain in Germany permanently. Immigrants react more strongly if they are less integrated in Germany and have close family … those who find employment within three months, immigrants who experience terror events receive lower hourly wages and are …
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