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Migration, Unemployment and Discrimination
Müller, Tobias - 2008
This paper uses a dynamic efficiency-wage model to analyze the consequences of immigration for a small country when … three regimes for rising immigration levels. Immigration is most beneficial for natives in the intermediate regime. An … growing opposition to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214928
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996552
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Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983131
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Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring Decisions : A Meta-Analysis of Correspondence Tests 1990-2015
Zschirnt, Eva; Ruedin, Didier - 2016
For almost 50 years field experiments have been used to study ethnic and racial discrimination in hiring decisions, consistently reporting high rates of discrimination against minority applicants, irrespective of time, location, or minority groups tested. While Riach and Rich (2002) and Rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136225
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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Partial linear quantile regression and bootstrap confidence bands
Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Ritov, Ya'acov; Song, Song - 2010
In this paper uniform confidence bands are constructed for nonparametric quantile estimates of regression functions. The method is based on the bootstrap, where resampling is done from a suitably estimated empirical density function (edf) for residuals. It is known that the approximation error...
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Weight, stigma, and attitudes toward immigrants
Fazio, Andrea; Giaccherini, Matilde - 2024
Building on social identity theory, we suggest that natives from stereotyped groups tend to value cultural distance more and think that immigrants are not good for the economy and the fiscal system. We draw upon research showing that overweight and obese individuals suffer from social stigma and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062650
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Immigration and two-component unemployment
Albert, Max; Meckl, Jürgen - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506645
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Redistribution preferences, attitudes towards immigrants, and ethnic diversity
Coban, Mustafa - 2020
their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256986