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Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis

Nedoncelle, Clément; Marchal, Léa; Aubry, Amandine; … - 2024

The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …

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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 4, pp. 825-854

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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

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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …

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Immigrant Category of Admission and the Earnings of Adults and Children: How far does the Apple Fall?

Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew D.; Worswick, Christopher - 2018

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...

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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - 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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H-1Bs: How do they stack up to US born workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles when Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021

We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …

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