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provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …
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immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on …
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Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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