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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …
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and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather … firms. Using US data, I show in my empirical analysis that among low-skilled workers undocumented immigrants earn 8% less … and have a 7 pp higher job finding rate than documented immigrants. Parameterizing the model based on these estimates, I …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119990
great range of geographical origins and cultural backgrounds of immigrants make the study of the determinants and the …
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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053443
literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups … of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …
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