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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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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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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000
Freire, Tiago - 2011
It is generally accepted that migration will lead to an increase in income. However the question is how will income be … international migration in developed countries. To the best of our knowledge this is the rst study to look at the impact of rural …-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, C.Simon - 2010
A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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Brain drain and factor complementarity
Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006
In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU
Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010
This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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