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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of … influx led to increase in formal sector employment among the Brazilians, while the effect on both overall and native wages … employment, specially among the female workers in Roraima. Focusing on the host community, the findings suggest that Venezuelan …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955007
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950520
influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates …
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distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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