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Do immigrants reduce natives' wages? : evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 1997
. However, the effects of immigration on the wages of natives are numerically very small. Separability tests show that the use …This paper investigates the effects of immigration on the wages of native workers in Germany. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577475
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Do Immigrants Reduce Natives' Wages? Evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas - 1998
. However, the effects of immigration on the wages of natives are numerically very small. Separability tests show that the use …This paper investigates the effects of immigration on the wages of native workers in Germany. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334373
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Lewer, Joshua J.; Berg, Hendrik F. … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …
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The Heterogeneous Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Wagner, Mathis - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2009
immigration on worker relocation across industries is far larger than its impact on average native wages. …In this paper I provide estimates of the impact of immigration on native wage and employment levels (rather than on … effects in the service sector and large native employment increases in manufacturing due to immigration. This heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518914
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Do Surges in Less-Skilled Immigration Have Important Wage Effects? A Review of the U.S. Evidence
Howell, David R. - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2007
the two great American immigration surges (roughly 1870-1914 and 1980 to the present).   The literature is fairly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070048
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Comparisons and contrasts of the impact of the crisis on euro area labour markets
Anderton, Robert; Jarvis, Valerie; Szörfi, Béla; … - 2015
The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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Editorial: Atypische Beschäftigungsverhältnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft
Keller, Berndt; Nienhüser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278768
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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