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In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings … overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on Palestinian employment and earnings are taken from the … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German …
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on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of … immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants' arrival, and may become smaller as the labor market adjusts to the … supply shock. Conversely, if immigrants upon arrival are poor substitutes for natives, the initial effect of immigration is …
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the employment rate of European immigrants is close to that for persons born in Belgium, the figure for immigrants from … immigrants still have a relatively low employment rate raises a number of other questions concerning, among others, the … Belgium, especially as immigrants represent 14 % of the resident population, one of the largest proportions in the EU. While …
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In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment … oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …
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immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …
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quality. Nevertheless, the impact of export participation on both wages and employment quality vary greatly with respect to …This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and … employment quality. Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2007 and 2009, we find evidence that export …
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differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead …-augmenting, and free trade in product markets leads to factor price equalization, so that wages are equal across countries when … measured in efficiency units of labor. The estimated gains from removing immigration restrictions are huge. Using a simple …
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desired levels of immigration are influenced by the prospect that new immigrants will be voting in the future, which may lead … appropriate level of immigration into the country. Immigration does not enter directly into the native agents' utility functions … capital, which alone gives rise to alternative levels of desired immigration. We show that the natives' preferences over …
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Immigrant employment often concentrates in non-traded goods sectors and many immigrants have low inter …-sectoral mobility. We consider these observed characteristics of immigrant employment for the question of how immigration affects a … employment. Empirical investigation of the models predictions indicates that trade and immigration are complements. …
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