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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

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Skilled migrants and labour market integration : how important is the selection process?

Van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Although many OECD countries use skilled migration to boost economic performance, there is surprisingly little direct empirical evidence concerning what effects historical initiatives in this area have had. This study estimates the effects of Australia's recent shift toward a "hybrid approach"...

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When General Skills Are Not Enough : The Influence of Recent Shifts in Australian Skilled Migration Policy on Migrant Employment Outcomes

van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2014

Although many countries are now using skilled migration to offset declining fertility and increased longevity, there is thin empirical evidence concerning the effects of alternative approaches to managing the skilled migrant intake. This study focuses on the effects on migrant labour market...

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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants

Cheng, Zhiming - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2016

significant for low-skilled immigrants from the new member states or with the medium number of years since immigration, as well as … economic shocks, and support the case for well-designed immigration policy and free movement of workers within the EU. Paper …

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment and Wages of Native Workers

Palivos, Theodore; Chassamboulli, Andri - 2022

We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market … outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income …

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Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers

Gatti, Nicolò; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Parchet, Raphaël; … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the...

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Does immigration affect native wages? : a meta-analysis

Nedoncelle, Clément; Marchal, Léa; Aubry, Amandine; … - 2024

The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …

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