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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers … intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in …' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm …
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … where these effects should have been stronger. By analyzing the behavior of population, employment and wages of U.S. natives … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …
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Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers … including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …
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to control for endogeneity of immigration itself leads to an underestimate of its employment impact. …Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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