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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …
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The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply … elasticity of the migrant labor supply that we take to the data using the evolution of the numbers and wages of temporary … be very large. Temporary migrants are very reactive to economic conditions in their potential destinations …
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-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages. … migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration …
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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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