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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration : Evidence from German Establishments
Brinatti, Agostina; Morales, Nicolas - 2021
We revisit the old question of how immigration affects the welfare of native workers. As opposed to most of the previous literature, we look at this question through the lens of firms, as they play a crucial role in immigration and are massively heterogeneous even within sectors. We use a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219849
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration : Evidence from German Establishments
Brinatti, Agostina; Morales, Nicolas - 2022
We use a detailed establishment-level dataset from Germany to document a new dimension of firm heterogeneity: large firms spend a higher share of their wage bill on immigrants than small firms. We show analytically that ignoring this heterogeneity in the immigrant share leads to biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297786
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality : Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321433
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414835
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch : evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011537
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch : Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques - 2010
occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137556
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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...
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