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Immigration, diversity and the labour market outcomes of native workers: some recent developments

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …

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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...

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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...

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Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK

Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan; Commander, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, this hypothesis requires that the degree of screening of migrants by the host...

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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective

De Coulon, Augustin; Piracha, Matloob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...

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Testing for factor price equality with unobserved differences in factor quality or productivity

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We develop a method for identifying departures from relative factor price equality that is robust to unobserved variation in factor productivity. We implement this method using data on the relative wage bills of nonproduction and production workers across 170 local labor markets comprising the...

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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...

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The careers of immigrants

Damas de Matos, Ana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...

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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent …

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Crime and immigration: new evidence from England and Wales

Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …

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