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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their … certified migrants (10.2 and 6.6 log points), reflecting a more intense screening of migrant than native workers. The … representation of migrants among licensed (but not certified or unionized) workers is 14% lower than that of natives. This implies a …

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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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Does immigration affect native wages? : a meta-analysis

Nedoncelle, Clément; Marchal, Léa; Aubry, Amandine; … - 2024

The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews 42 studies published between 1987 to 2019, offering a comprehensive assessment of reduced-form estimates of the wage effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration...

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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - 2013

specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … crucially on speaking German well, thus excluding many first generation migrants and are found to occur particularly in service … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …

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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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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021

Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...

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Immigrants in skilled occupations in Brazil : Assessing the factors impacting wages

Canaan, Renan - 2022

The gravity model of immigration advocates that immigrants rationally weigh up the attractiveness of host countries to make their destination choice, being earnings levels and wage discrimination the main positive and negative drivers respectively. Giving that Brazil faces a shortage of human...

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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia

Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024

We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are defined by groups with similar levels of experience and education (or...

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