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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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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …
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immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap. …With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could …
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migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and …
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
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immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
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