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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...

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Who benefits from the minimum wage - natives or migrants? : there is no evidence that increases in the minimum wage have hurt immigrants

Zavodny, Madeline - 2014

According to economic theory, a minimum wage reduces the number of low-wage jobs and increases the number of available workers, allowing greater hiring selectivity. More competition for a smaller number of low-wage jobs will disadvantage immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than...

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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs,...

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Are married immigrant women secondary workers? : patterns of labor market assimilation for married immigrant women are similar to those for men

Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015

What is the role of married women in immigrant households? Their contribution to the labor market has traditionally been considered of secondary importance and studied in the framework of temporary attachment to the labor force to support the household around the time of arrival. But this role...

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Personal characteristics of remitting Ukrainian migrants in the Czech Republic

Glazar, Ondřej; Strielkowski, Wadim - In: International economics letters : an international … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 11-22

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The effect of immigration on native earnings

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000

This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among nativeDutch workers and ethnicminorities, using national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour markets is considered. It is shown thatethnic...

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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …

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Managing the well-being of temporary skilled migrants

Bahn, Susanne - In: The international journal of human resource management 26 (2015) 16, pp. 2102-2120

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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328

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The value of H-1B status in times of scarcity

Sparber, Chad - 2015

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