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-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … experience before immigration added only a small or no earnings gain after immigration for Canadian-educated immigrants. …
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This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on wages taking into account human capital and labor supply adjustments … adjustments that mitigate the effect of immigration on wages. These adjustments include career switches, labor market detachment …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001 - 2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on crosssectional data and have therefore suffered...
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives' labour …
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of employment, wages, and uptake of the native national identity. On employment and wages, I find that those who …
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This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous … estimated OLS wage elasticities to immigration. Sub-Sample 2SLS estimates average – 1:2 and are very stable to the use of …
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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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In this paper, I document the effect of factors related to english language acquisition on patterns of hourly earnings assimilation of immigrants in California.
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual's ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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