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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272347
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage …-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with rising unemployment, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to … immigration while foreigners tend to lose: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force through immigration increases native …
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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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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …
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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 …
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