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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …

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Immigration and Distribution of Wages in Austria

Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2011

Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …

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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - 2005

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...

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Convergence to fair wage growth? Evidence from European countries on the link between productivity and real compensation growth, 1970-2017

Theodoropoulou, Sotiria - 2019

This paper examines two questions. First, whether and if so, to what extent real compensation growth has been systematically associated with labour productivity growth in the past five decades, once other factors determining real compensation growth have been taken into account. And secondly,...

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Citizens´ groups in Japan and the Internet

Ducke, Isa - 2003

The Internet, like other new technologies, will undoubtedly affect civil society and the workings of activists, citizens´ groups, and the political process as a whole. But how radical will this impact be, and precisely how will the Internet change the way citizens´ groups act?

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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …

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Immigration and native welfare

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration … decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into the standard complementarity effect, augmented by a Stolper … native welfare effects of various immigration scenarios. A calibration-based simulation reveals that the size of the inflow …

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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

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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Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2013

We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low-wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...

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Is skilled immigration always good for growth in the receiving economy?

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … economy's human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or …

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