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Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives …' earnings rank. By exploiting variation in immigration patterns over time across commuting zones, we find that immigration from …, whereas immigration from high‐income countries has leveled it. Given the large inflow of immigrants from low-income countries …
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Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
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We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to … those of a rise in the minimum wage. For plausible parameter values, immigration raises employment of the home labor force …
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immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
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in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse …
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culture are willing to vote for free migration whereas those who have higher learning costs will be in favor of immigration …
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culture are willing to vote for free migration whereas those who have higher learning costs will be in favor of immigration …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by …
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