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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war
Edo, Anthony - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701511
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy : evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
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 the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607505
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The effect of social networks on migrants' labor market integration : a natural experiment
Gërxhani, Klarita; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159529
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The effect of the H-1B quota on the employment and selection of foreign-born labor
Mayda, Anna Maria; Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2018
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798253
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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884104
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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
Kahanec, Martin; Pytlikova, Mariola; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959722
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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839535
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How residence permits affect the labor market attachment of foreign workers : evidence from a migration lottery in Liechtenstein
Buechel, Berno; Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2021 - Revised version: November 6, 2021
overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342109
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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010789775