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Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … rents as well as higher productivity, wages, and education levels. We examine whether today's economic differences across the … estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and hourly wages by around 10%. …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …
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wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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house price and wage data as well as detailed information on the Swiss population to study the effects of immigration on the … location choice of incumbent households. Immigration influences a household's location choice through three distinct channels …: house price changes, labor market competition, and households' sentiment regarding immigration. We find evidence of all …
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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden …
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