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A Matching Model on the Use of Immigrant Social Networks and Referral Hiring
Garcia-Perez, Monica I. - Economics Department, St. Cloud State University - 2012
Using a simple search model, with urn-ball derived matching function, this paper investigates the effect of firm owner’s and coworkers’ nativity on hiring patterns and wages. In the model, social networks reduce search frictions and wages are derived endogenously as a function of...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184407
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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184449
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The impact of immigration on the local labor market outcomes of blue collar workers: panel data evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185658
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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives’ wages and no dominant robust...
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Skilled Immigration, Innovation and Wages of Native-born American
Islam, Asadul; Islam, Faridul; Nguyen, Chau - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
The paper examines the effects of skilled immigration on US wages that are due to innovation. We extend the studies by … Hunt & Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), and Hunt (2011) to explore the immigration-innovation-wages nexus. Using the National … Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and the US Census datasets we find a significant positive effect of immigration on wages …
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
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