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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …
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new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …
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In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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) countries. This immigration reform granted all EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our firm-level panel data …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an in ux of foreign workers … into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact that immigration …
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I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...
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We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find … low skilled immigration in Italy may have hampered the transition to an economic structure characterized by high …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …
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