workers. We raise several concerns regarding the analytical and the empirical parts of the Battisti et al.'s inquiry that bear … regarding the impacts on the welfare of native workers of skill-neutral migration and of migration by low-skill workers. A … particular concern is that our calibration of a corrected model yields estimates of the tax rate on workers' wages that are far …

), which introduced stricter limits on hiring low-skilled foreign workers. Using a difference-in-differences framework with … Labour Force Survey data from 2005 to 2019, we compare wage outcomes for domestic workers in TFW-intensive occupations to … reforms led to a statistically significant increase in wages for affected domestic workers. The estimated impact ranges from 3 …

Providing recently laid off workers with cash benefits may help them overcome mobility costs and thereby stimulate …, which generated a sharp cutoff after which workers became eligible to a severance payment of two monthly salaries. Our …