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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 …
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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/10010764642
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This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean region from the colonial period to the present. Themes that cross history are highlighted as are the reversals of trends. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the...
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driven by local concentrations of ethnic minorities. The immigration debate, however, has arguably changed since the EU … expansions and the economic crisis of the past decade. This paper tests whether public support for immigration restriction is … suggest that support for immigration restriction is higher in regions where more immigrants are unemployed, but lower in …
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in place, as well as generally fixed rents, with limited ability to vary these. Though these systems remain in place, in … internal migration and rents on the housing market. Findings suggest that foreign-born migration, and refugees in particular …, impact rents, especially in major cities. …
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in place, as well as generally fixed rents, with limited ability to vary these. Though these systems remain in place, in … internal migration and rents on the housing market. Findings suggest that foreign-born migration, and refugees in particular …, impact rents, especially in major cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203408
This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices in relation to immigration flows for 85 regions from 2001 to … 2006. The results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price … inflation and modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1 % of an area’s population is coincident with an …
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local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my …
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local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574806