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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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natives’ wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native’s wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358402
During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...
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Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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investigate the "global" determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as …-industrialization and of internet expansion. Low-skill immigration, on the other hand, tends to induce a transfer of votes from left-wing to … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … native population nor immigration flows. In the case of AI, we determine an increase in the wage gap as well as the …
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