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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021

Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the … the foreign-born workforce since 1976. The raw correlations suggest that the immigrant supply shock did not change the …

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

van Praag, Mirjam - 2015

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

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Immigration and Crime in a Frictional Labor Market

Zhang, Shiyun - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and crime in a frictional labor market. Immigration strengthens the labor market in the host country by reducing firms' labor costs. With more immigrants in this labor market, unemployed workers find a job faster, but employed workers...

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

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Citizenship and the economic assimilation of Canadian immigrants

Zanoni López, Wladimir; He, Ailin - 2021

In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We took advantage of a natural experiment made possible through changes in the Canadian Citizenship Act of 2014, which extended the physical presence requirement for citizenship from...

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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016

Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...

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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2021

This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a "natural experiment" of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyze this...

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