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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
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The impact of immigration on the French labor market: Why so different?
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 14-27
immigration on natives' wages and employment is shown to hold also at the regional level. We find evidence that this positive … important part of the positive relation between immigration and wages comes from a reallocation of natives to better …
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Immigration, langues et performance economique: le Quebec et l'Ontario entre 1970 et 1995.
Grenier, G. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2000
Cette etude contribue a deux courants de litterature relativement distincts: l'integration econmique des immigrants au Canada et les liens entre attributs linguistiques et revenus - au Quebec surtout mais aussi dans le reste du Canada. L'analyse porte sur deux provinces canadiennes, le Quebec et...
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The Effect of Host Society Culture on Migrant Wage Discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012
This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: a Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, J.; Verdugo, G. - Banque de France - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416939
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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru
Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024
In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
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Limits to Wage Growth : Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Jain, Apoorva - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives Across Occupations and Locations
Ortega, Javier - 2016
Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980286
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179424