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This paper investigates the impact of cultural diversity on labour market outcomes, particularly on wages across … effects. Our findings indicate that the current level of cultural diversity positively affected current regional weekly wages … the literature where some studies report that cultural diversity increases wages across time while others do not. …
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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …
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wages; however, empirical evidence is minimal. We argue that commuting indeed often results from changes to jobs with higher … wages. However, local labor market opportunities strongly moderate individuals' responsiveness to wage changes, resulting in … a mixed-effects design, we find that when changing jobs the effect of wages on commuting distances rises substantially …
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human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …
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This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
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We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
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