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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2020
Costa Rica experienced in recent years increasing international migration from neighboring countries due to political …, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311653
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Living with the neighbors: The effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia
Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285066
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Living with the neighbors: The effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164624
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029807
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia
Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368665
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996034
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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Hauptmann, Andreas; Jahn, Elke J.; … - In: European Economic Review 66 (2014) C, pp. 205-225
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048611
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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285855
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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017
Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695264