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educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less educated …
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on … natives. We find that in the considered period immigration did not produce significant migratory response or loss of jobs of …
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export. The skill level of foreignborn workers and the time that has elapsed since immigration also impact the degree to …
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new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …
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This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
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This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...
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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
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A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …
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Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...
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