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This survey presents findings from recent empirical studies on economic impacts of immigration with particular emphasis … on European and Nordic countries. The survey consists of three parts. First, we look at the extent of immigration as an … labor markets and the use of social benefits by immigrants. Third, the effect of immigration on natives? labor market …
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This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264446
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406111
markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …
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markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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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In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...
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This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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