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across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …
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. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …
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during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV …
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Brewery workers who migrated between the Czech Lands and the United States existed in a complex world of fluid loyalties and ideologies that traveled with them as they crossed back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. This article focuses on the publications of brewery workers' unions on both...
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study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …
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during this high immigration period. Furthermore, the recession appears to have exclusively reduced job injury rates, but not …
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This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …
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