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Economic migration with matching frictions and business cycle amplification
Lozej, Matija - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 223-249). 2020
Migration interacts with the domestic labour market through the increase in labour supply from immigration when labour market conditions improve and labour market tightness increases. Lozej studies the amplification mechanism that arises when there are search frictions, as it becomes more...
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The impact of immigration on productivity
Llull, Joan - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 27-58). 2020
imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the … zeroes of displaced workers are averaged in), and +0.12 on the wages of those who remain working. The effect on immigrant … wages is unambiguously negative. …
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