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Do immigrants take or create residents jobs? : quasi-experimental evidence from Switzerland ; conference paper

Basten, Christoph; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2013 - This version: May 2013

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor market cells, we develop new variants of the...

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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Hazans, Mihails - 2011

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...

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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the estimates vary with definitions of the labor market,...

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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...

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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

Borjas, George J. - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

Bohn, Sarah - 2015

We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...

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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany

Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021

Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …

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Employer sanctions : a policy with a pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of …

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Employer sanctions: a policy with a pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of …

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