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Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs: Evidence from the minimum wage
Cadena, Brian C. - In: Journal of Urban Economics 80 (2014) C, pp. 1-12
This paper investigates the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants’ location decisions. Canonical models emphasize the importance of labor mobility when evaluating the employment effects of the minimum wage; yet few studies...
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Immigration and Location Choices of Native-Born Workers in Canada
Aydede, Yigit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run …. Models in location-choice studies usually examine the migration decision in two separate processes: whether-to and where …
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Labour Market Matters - June 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
existing jobs; however, if a “substitution†situation is the reality immigration can lead to out-migration of the non …
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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - European Regional Science Association - 2014
-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market for Native-Born Workers: Incorporating the Dynamics of Internal Migration
Pedace, Roberto - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 4, pp. 449-462
contribution to the existing literature is the introduction of explicit controls for native net internal migration. The results … suggest that migration controls are significant and must be included in any cross-sectional regional analysis that attempts to … migration control is found to be responsible for changing the significance and/or sign (from positive to negative) of the …
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The Infrastructure and Other Costs of Immigration
Musgrave, Ralph S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants and review the received literature on economic migration research in … the three principal avenues of migration research. The aspect which we concentrate on in our empirical application, the …
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The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to ethnic origin of immigrants as compared to the native born German population. In addition, winners and losers of the re-distribution process, induced by the tax and social security...
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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Skilled Immigration and Wages in Australia
Islam, Asadul; Fausten, Dietrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of the relative growth of skilled migration on the structure of Australian wages …
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