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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs,...

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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012

While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan - 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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Job quality gaps between migrant and native gig workers : evidence from Poland

Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2023

gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about a third of gig workers. Migrants take up gig jobs due to a lack of … income or other job opportunities much more often than natives, who mostly do it for autonomy. Migrants' job quality is … job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also …

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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality

Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia

Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017

The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...

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Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? : an extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate...

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant...

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Wage and employment effects of immigration to Germany : evidence from a skill group approach

Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2005

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The Wage Impact of Immigration in Germany : New Evidence for Skill Groups and Occupations

Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2009

The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the adequate technique to identify the impact of immigration. Initially the regression analysis on the basis of education-experience cells reveals that the impact of immigration on native wages in Germany is negative, but small. The subsequent...

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