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Trainspotting : "good jobs", training and skilled immigration
Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019
different training effects of skilled immigration across traded and non-traded sectors. Hiring of UK born workers in high wage …While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to …
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606239
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus (contributor);  … - European System of Central Banks / Monetary Policy … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641224
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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?
Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006
The recent EU expansion raised fears of potential migration motivated by welfare receipt. In this paper we use comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from social support than natives. Looking at the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003362259
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Explaining cross-country differences in labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD
Bergh, Andreas - 2014
In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391488
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Population growth, immigration and labour market dynamics
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2021
the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New measures of labour market flows by migrant status uncover both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698331
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607354
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Comparing wage gains from different immigrant legalization programs
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018
We use data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) for data on immigrants who were legalized based on family ties or small-scale legalization programs, and the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) for data on immigrants legalized by the IRCA. Estimates suggest that the increase in wage after...
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Immigration and the U.S. labor market : a look ahead
Holzer, Harry J. - 2020
participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat …
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Understanding the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants
Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias, Ferran - 2017
This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo (2011)). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...
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