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This paper investigates the macroeconomic and welfare effects of illegal immigration on the native born within a … postwar U.S. economy. The model predicts that in the long run illegal immigration is a boon, but the employment opportunities …
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This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour … Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …
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of recent immigration. Our model has two production sectors (manufacturing and services), two skill groups and two ethnic …, especially in the high skill segment. Our results show that recent immigration to Germany, including refugees, has a moderate … negative effect on the welfare of low skill workers in manufacturing (-0.6%), but all other worker groups are gaining from …
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local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
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We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991-2000 and 2001-2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks - the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …
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