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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2020
substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824643
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How Important is Selection? Experimental Versus Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration
McKenzie, David J. - 2016
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748139
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Migration, Trade and Unemployment
Heid, Benedikt - 2011
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117376
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Migration, Trade and Unemployment
Heid, Benedikt - 2012
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of trade and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210335
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Stochastic National Income
Wei, Taoyuan - 2013
How can national income be adjusted to indicate welfare improvement if the future is uncertain? The present paper … extends the definition of national income to stochastic settings on the basis of discounted utilitarian welfare function. Real … interest rate of consumption is redefined so that real national income can be interpreted as the expected present value of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095057
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How important is selection? : Experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration
McKenzie, David J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310959
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668050
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658273
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International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain
Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2011
and examine how international migration affects the income of individuals in sending and receiving countries, and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309617