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Les gains des immigrants au Canada: 1970-1990.
Grenier, G. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005147004
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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694689
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The role of labor market institutions in the impact of immigration on wages and employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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Moving up or down? : immigration and the selection of natives across occupations and locations
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2016
Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
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Immigrants and the U.S. wage distribution
Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2020
A large body of literature estimates the relative wage impacts of immigration on low- and high-skill natives, but it is …-form quantile treatment effects by constructing a ceteris paribus counterfactual wage distribution with lower immigration levels …
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
Immigrants consist of foreigners and citizens with migration background. We analyze the wage gap between natives and these two groups in Germany. The estimates show a substantial gap for both groups with respect to natives. Discarding immigrants who completed education abroad reduces much of the...
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany: Are East Europeans Worse Off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332486
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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015
We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...
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