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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … explain the larger scale of the flows to Spain. We argue that the puzzle is explained by taking into account that (i) the … options to migrate legally to either destination were slim, and (ii) the cost of illegally migrating to Spain was lower than …
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of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …
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Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
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factor supplies, affect native wage and employment rates and the return to capital. We then provide evidence on the level and … discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
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to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
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