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Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...

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Immigrant–Native Wage Inequality across Occupational Sectors in Australia

Islam, Asadul; Parasnis, Jaai - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014

We investigate wage inequality by migrant status across white collar and blue collar occupations in Australia. We use the reweighting and recentered influence function regression methods proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) to decompose wage differentials across its distribution....

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 5, pp. 490-517

Immigrant-native wage differentials are observed in many countries, so in Germany. However, the available empirical literature for Germany defined the groups in consideration, immigrants and natives, by citizenship. This limits the explanatory power of the estimates since citizenship...

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Wage Assimilation of Immigrants in Spain

Jiménez-Ridruejo, Zenón; Arribas, Carlos Borondo - Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas … - 2011

In this study we quantify the effect of the years of residence in Spain on the earnings of immigrants. We take sex, origin, education and age into account. The results are clearly positive, the longer the length of residence the more earnings, confirming the hypothesis of wage assimilation of...

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Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura E.; Hayes, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …

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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

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Does it Matter Who I Work For and Who I Work With? The Impact of Owners and Coworkers Birthplace and Race on Hiring and Wages

Garcia-Perez, Monica I. - Economics Department, St. Cloud State University - 2011

This paper investigates the effect of firm owners and coworkers on hiring patterns and wages. Firstly, I explore the potential mechanisms generating their interrelation. Using a search model where social networks reduce search frictions, I develop the theoretical implications of social ties...

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Health Perpetuation: The impact of parent region of born on children use of health care and health status

Garcia-Perez, Monica I. - Economics Department, St. Cloud State University - 2012

outcomes almost completely ignored by the health and immigration literature. …

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