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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated …
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Immigration continues to shape labor market dynamics, yet its gender-specific effects remain understudied. This study …-educated women experiencing adverse effects. These findings provide new evidence that immigration shocks can have broad and …
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Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short …
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decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially … exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
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