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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …
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prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …
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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my …
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1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …
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This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some notable … immigration inflows, we follow the structural skill-cell approach as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and Peri …
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