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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the …
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM workers. We also document heterogeneity in the results, suggesting that European migrants are more attractive for new … recruitment, but non-EU migrants have the largest impact on wage determination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129939
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COVID-19 : emergence, spread and its impact on the Indian economy and migrant workers
Gulati, Ashok; Jose, Shyma; Singh, B. B. - 2021
/senior citizen as well as income transfer to farmers under PM-Kisan. Overall, our survey showed 84.7 percent of the migrants had … NovemberDecember 2020. Moreover, only 7.7 percent of migrants in their native place reported being engaged in Mahatma Gandhi National … 1.4 percent of migrants at their native place in our survey. Many workers reported a fall in the quality of food …
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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response
Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020
This note describes the contribution of migrant workers to the ongoing effort to keep basic services running in the Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that the Commission and Member States have identified using the...
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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response
Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2024
workers, the relationship with education is V-shaped, and EU and Extra EU migrants are, respectively, 12 and 15 percent more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502973
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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...
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Who benefits from the minimum wage - natives or migrants? : there is no evidence that increases in the minimum wage have hurt immigrants
Zavodny, Madeline - 2014
According to economic theory, a minimum wage reduces the number of low-wage jobs and increases the number of available workers, allowing greater hiring selectivity. More competition for a smaller number of low-wage jobs will disadvantage immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than...
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Do minimum wages induce immigration? : the minimum wage affects international migration flows and the internal relocation of immigrants
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
An increase in the minimum wage in immigrant destination countries raises the earnings that low-skilled migrants could …
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Short-term training programs for immigrants in the German welfare system : do effects differ from natives and why?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; Aldashev, Alisher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
We evaluate the individual employment effects of four types of short-term training for immigrants and natives in the German welfare system and identify differences in the effects determined by unobservable factors. Based on comprehensive and unique administrative data, we apply propensity score...
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...
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