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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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Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …
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Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741042
Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that, i) the old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217680
Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … against the available empirical evidence. The paper concludes that immigration cannot per se be considered as good or bad for …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita GDP of host and source countries. To do so, we propose a model in which heterogeneous agents invest in the acquisition of skills, and in which final good production exhibits...
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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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A key parameter in the analysis of wage inequality is the elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We question the common view that the elasticity exceeds 1. Two biases, publication and attenuation, conspire to pull the mean elasticity reported in the literature to 1.9....
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-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically …, the paper discusses expectations on future migration flows and the policy options of immigration countries for dealing …
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