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Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new...

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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are...

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The Economic Return on New Immigrants' Human Capital: the Impact of Occupational Matching

Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Using a data set that provides information on source country employment, we examine the effect of source and host country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada. Examining occupational distributions we find that...

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Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Miller, Paul W.; Chiswick, Barry R. - Department of Economics, Business School - 2006

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over-Required-Under education approach to occupations, a new...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730788

The economie impact of immigration for the host countries

Chojnicki, Xavier - In: Brussels Economic Review 47 (2004) 1, pp. 9-28

In this paper, we will investigate the economic consequences of immigration for the host countries. Recently, the debate has been centered on the role of immigration in the process of aging. A priori, the immigration of workers is likely to affect the economic situation of the host country in...

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The Determinants of Actual Migration and the Role of Wages and Unemployment in Albania: an Empirical Analysis

Cattaneo, Cristina - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 5 (2008) 1, pp. 3-32

The paper explores the determinants of internal migration in Albania, adopting the Harris-Todaro approach to migration …: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Francesco D’Amuri; Peri, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I P; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...

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How Immigration Affects U.S. Cities

Card, David - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007

In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the connection between immigrant inflows and the relative...

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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