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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...
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on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour … together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some …
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coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
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theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of … capital theory, we derive a non-linear model that imposes restrictions across the earning equations of natives and immigrants … following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …
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. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
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Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …
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