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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 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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in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at … macroeconomic and immigration policy setting of Cohort 2. Although the advantage derived from the Cohort 2 setting is not itself …
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This survey presents findings from recent empirical studies on economic impacts of immigration with particular emphasis … on European and Nordic countries. The survey consists of three parts. First, we look at the extent of immigration as an … labor markets and the use of social benefits by immigrants. Third, the effect of immigration on natives? labor market …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336868
consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the …
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The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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