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We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search …
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, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …
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discrimination against immigrants, the average fiscal impact of immigration is negative, but it becomes positive if discrimination … results indicate that wage discrimination against immigrants could significantly affect our estimates of the fiscal impact of … literature has found fiscal impacts that are close to zero. However, these studies have ignored the possibility that immigrants …
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-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …
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countries, it is observed that the coefficients effect dominates. It can therefore be concluded, that immigrants are generally … affected by "discrimination". Comparing the effects for workers from East European EU member countries with those for other … nationality groups, it emerges that East Europeans are not worse off than other nationalities. The most pronounced "discrimination …
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