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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415080
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Moving up or down? : immigration and the selection of natives across occupations and locations
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2016
Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572020
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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262326
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Immigration and the occupational choice of natives: A factor proportions approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274712
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H-1Bs: How do they stack up to US born workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - 2011
Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282139
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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The wage impact of immigration in Germany : new evidence for skill groups and occupations
Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2009
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the adequate technique to identify the impact of immigration …. Initially the regression analysis on the basis of education-experience cells reveals that the impact of immigration on native … classification criterion may lead to an underestimation of the impact of immigration. -- Labour market impact of migration ; skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161265
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Immigration and the occupational choice of natives : a factor proportions approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125651
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Skill mismatches in the EU : immigrants vs. natives
Nieto, Sandra; Matano, Alessia; Ramos, Raúl - 2013
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204506