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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
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Immigrant category of admission of the parents and outcomes of the children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542203
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485175
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The occupations and human capital of U.S. immigrants
Schoellman, Todd - 2009
This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523716
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands : a longitudinal study
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016
with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452733
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Heterogeneous displacement effects of migrant labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Scharfbillig, Mario; Weißler, Marco - 2019
. Our difference-in-difference design allows us to provide evidence from a labor supply shock of migrants on local markets …Dieses Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen des Arbeitskräfteangebot von Migranten auf die Beschäftigung von … Auswirkungen eines höheren Arbeitskräfteangebots von Migranten, abzüglich der zusätzlichen Ausgaben bei der Ankunftfi, die die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052219
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130639
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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Skill transference and international migration : a theoretical analysis on skilled migration to the Anglosphere
Nakagawa, Mariko - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133858