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Gaming scholars the world over are in consensus about Macau's bright future as a gaming Mecca. The phenomenal growth in gaming facilities over the last three years has created an acute labor shortage in this Special Administrative Region of China. Moreover, around twenty additional gaming and...
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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about the relationship between search costs and labor market outcomes. The final essay, “The Impact of Mexican Immigration … effect of immigration on U.S. labor market outcomes using a novel source of exogenous variation in migrant inflows. Rainfall …
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The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition of immigrant inflows into local markets is a significant determinant of...
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The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide better labor market prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose...
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in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at … macroeconomic and immigration policy setting of Cohort 2. Although the advantage derived from the Cohort 2 setting is not itself …
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, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …
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, immigration, incentives, discrimination, unemployment and unemployment insurance. …
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from the immigration boom in Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by … immigration if natives' and immigrants' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that … not been largely offset by immigration …
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our results given that immigration phenomenon is quite recent in the Spanish labour market and it has taken place in an …
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