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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Relative supply and demand for skills in Switzerland

Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 141 (2005) 4, pp. 555-584

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The wage impact of the Marielitos : the role of race

Borjas, George J. - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 72 (2019) 4, pp. 858-870

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Automation and low-skill labor

Mann, Katja; Pozzoli, Dario - 2022

Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an exogenous increase in the local labor supply induced by a large influx of immigrants into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the...

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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience

Matloob, Piracha; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland

Favre, Sandro - 2011

low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution

Bonn, Moritz - 2011

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benifit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall …

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Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea

Kim, Jungho - 2013

This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives' economic performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of Korea's system by which to introduce low-skilled immigrants. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses...

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