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earnings of job stayers and job-to-job movers. In contrast to previous studies, it attempts to provide macro-level estimates by … the share of employment subject to licensing (the extensive margin) and the strictness of regulation (the intensive margin … from entry restrictions and renewal requirements to licensing, while education and training requirements may increase job …
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Undocumented migration from the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the United States has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, accelerating at times. The paper investigates what factors could explain this fact, by estimating an investment decision...
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individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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We investigate the impact of home country institutions on the skill level of immigrants to the United States over 1988-1998. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that institutions are multidimensional and that the different dimensions have conflicting impacts on the migration of skilled...
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Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative …
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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 … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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