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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta …-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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This paper investigates the degree to which immigration shock to a region propagates through supply chains. Using the … country are affected in terms of their sales, employment, and wages. We also estimate the effect of the shock on … interprovincial trade, focusing on trade volume and network formation. The results point to positive spillover effects of immigration …
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immigrants, reduce incentives for their immigration, and increase employment and earnings for low-skilled natives. This study … legally work prior to employment. In the main, these laws are designed to reduce employment opportunities for unauthorized …. Supplemental analyses from the Current Population Survey (CPS) suggest that E-Verify-induced increases in employment of low …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882621
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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immigrant employment in Finland and the fiscal impact of immigration as well as the effect on the labor market. We show that the … number of employed immigrants as well as immigrants' employment rate in Finland has increased. We review the economic impacts … of immigration. We show that the fiscal impact of immigration depends heavily on the characteristics of immigrants and …
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …
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