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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 …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …
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Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?
Jackson, Osborne - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused …
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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 … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …
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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
Hlavac, Marek - 2013
I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072219
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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration : Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977064
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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada
Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022
What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, representative survey of 801 employers finds that those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism...
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment and Wages of Native Workers
Palivos, Theodore; Chassamboulli, Andri - 2022
We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market …
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Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers
Gatti, Nicolò; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Parchet, Raphaël; … - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the...
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