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low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage … negligible. -- Immigration ; Wage Distribution ; Occupation Groups ; Inequality …
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effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …
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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …
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We have combined a simple demographic model and the 58 sector econometric simulation and forecasting model INFORGE (Interindustry Forecasting Germany) which has been successfully used in different areas, e.g. modelling the effects of CO2 taxes and the liberalisation of the IT market on the...
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. Traditional immigration countries with a long experience in selecting migrants are nonetheless confronted with the need to …Calculating the net fiscal effects of immigration not just for a fiscal year but over the lifespan of immigrant cohorts … economic losses or only a reduced surplus. A country comparison of net tax payments and generational accounts for migrants and …
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We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …
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performance to evaluate whether in the United Kingdom immigration affected the way natives specialise in the task they perform on … responded to immigration inflows of similarly educated workers by increasing their supply of communication tasks, relative to …
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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...
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Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to … assimilate will be muted. -- Migrants’ behavior ; The effort to assimilate ; Income gains ; Social proximity ; Interpersonal …
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