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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, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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On asymmetric migration patterns from developing countries
Acharyya, Rajat; Kar, Saibal - 2017
This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098854
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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants : many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes, but promising options exist
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686
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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010
We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274949
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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282473
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316922
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344847
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Source country economic development and dynamics of the skill composition of emigration
Idu, Roxana - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/18, pp. 1-18
offers new hypotheses regarding the skill composition of emigration during the mobility transition. Skill … high-to-low skill emigration ratio. As SBTC eventually diffuses to the source economy, it also raises the relative return … to high skill investment there, and causes a decline in the high-to-low skill emigration ratio. Empirical evidence using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020516
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A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries : younger and more skilled migrants from more diverse countries
Aiglepierre, Rohen d'; David, Anda; Levionnois, Charlotte; … - 2020
since 2000/01. It also presents evidence on overall emigration rates and emigration rates of the highly educated at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180254
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German emigration via Bremen in the Weimar Republic (1920-1932)
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
This paper analyzes the oversea emigration of German passengers via the port of Bremen in the period of theWeimar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773459