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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China …

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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour … market opportunities, past migration experience, and international student exchange are strong predictors of future migration … hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …

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Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer

Carletto, Calogero; Larrison, Jennica; Ozden, Caglar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been … of the existing shortcomings in availability, quality, and relevance of migration data can be overcome via improvements …

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Migration and the Demographic Shift

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …

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