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Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …
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provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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immigration, contrasting evidence shows that immigrants are less likely to move into areas with higher or more frequent increases … in the US for several years, who are more likely to move in response to higher minimum wages, and by new immigrants, who …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
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options to counter demographic trends can be split into four main areas higher productivity, immigration, activity rates, or … questions, and potentially inter-generational conflict. Policy discussions are likely to centre ever more on immigration, how to …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of … using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that … States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to …
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two estimate different relative effects, and the third the total effect of immigration on wages. We interpret the …We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups, where studies in the first … estimates in those approaches that estimate relative effects of immigration, but not in approaches that estimate total effects …
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