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To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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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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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in … Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in … vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees. The program also …
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concern over such a large influx of refugees with her well-known saying, "Wir schaffen das" (We can do this!). Much has …. Nevertheless, refugees are increasingly concerned about xenophobia. At the same time, although their trust in key state … be to foster personal contact between refugees and local populations. However, the present study indicates that, so far …
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How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor...
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How does easing the economic integration of forced migrants affect native voting behaviors in the Global South? This paper assesses how the regularization of half a million Venezuelan forced migrants affected the electoral choices of Colombian natives by comparing election results in...
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outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives' wages … and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labor market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this process … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel's Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men …
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outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives' wages … and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labor market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this process … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel's Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069875
wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published … employment are rather small, the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes was severely limited by the …
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