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The Effects of Immigration on U.S. Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2007
compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533085
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The Effects of Immigration on U.S. Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach.
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007
compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967955
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Do when and where matter? : initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings
Åslund, Olof; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2003
This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571649
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Labor market integration of migrants : hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510576
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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes
Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495036
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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes
Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demircioğlu, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507087
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664509
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2020
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311653