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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is the migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. This setting presents unique institutional features - including the lack of barriers posed by migration...
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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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We analyze how economic conditions at the time of arrival affect the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants … in the U.S. Our identification strategy exploits long waiting times for family-sponsored immigration visas that decouple … result of substantial occupational downgrading, lower hourly wages, and a reduction in working hours. Family migrants who …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially … exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the …
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During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...
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new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …
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decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting … the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the supply …
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This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy … composition of migrants. The two results capture different aspects of remittance behaviour. …
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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