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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 … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law", which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384652
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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388245
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- international migration ; effects of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306945
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124784
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration - Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Sinning, Mathias - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125534
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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- International migration ; effects of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124265
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The effects of immigration on wages: An application of the structural skill-cell approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - 2010
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some notable … immigration inflows, we follow the structural skill-cell approach as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and Peri …
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