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earlier waves of repatriates, which provides us a strong source of exogenous variation in the 1989 immigrant shock across …
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more … likely to be employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment … advantage. By April 2020, immigrant men had lower employment rates than native men. The reversal occurred both because the rate …
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more … likely to be employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment … advantage.By April 2020, immigrant men had lower employment rates than native men. The reversal occurred both because the rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833269
counterfactual. We use a unique dataset on immigrant workers that includes those employed in both formal and informal sector. We find … between immigrant and native workers. Calibrating a simple partial equilibrium model of spillovers between formal and informal …
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The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
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This paper investigates the degree to which immigration shock to a region propagates through supply chains. Using the unexpected arrival of Syrian refugees densely concentrated in border regions of Turkey, we estimate how firms throughout the country are affected in terms of their sales,...
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Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in Poland. For identification, I use an instrumental variable...
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This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...
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We analyze the flexibility of the Canadian labor market across provinces in both an inter- and intra-national context using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that Canadian labor markets respond in a similar manner to...
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Labor markets in Australia have adjusted smoothly to significant declines in commodity priceswith little increase in unemployment. This paper examines several aspects of the adjustment,focusing on (i) evidence of increased labor market frictions following the commodity pricedecline; (ii)...
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