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The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in … heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327926
Immigrants' social networks exert considerable influence over their labor market opportunities and yet the pre-sorting of co-nationals by ability and across space, endures as a key challenge for empiricists attempting to establish causal network effects. To surmount this issue, we leverage the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497853
The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in … heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178124
This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595256
Immigrants' social networks exert considerable influence over their labor market opportunities and yet the pre-sorting of co-nationals by ability and across space, endures as a key challenge for empiricists attempting to establish causal network effects. To surmount this issue, we leverage the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389046
also an adequate distribution of income is influenced by many factors, including migration. This paper aims at highlighting … the effects of migration upon the economic development of EU Member State receiving countries, starting from economic and … social facts indicating a migration phenomenon that is ever increasing. In this regard, it has been thought appropriate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793456
The objectives of this paper are to examine the traditional determinants of interregional migration between regions of … we find that the relationship between regional wage differences and migration is non-linear. For white-collar workers the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005427387
This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a...
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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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Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...
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