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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers?

Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...

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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach

Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 146 (2010) IV, pp. 709-739

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This period is of particular interest as it marks the time during which the bilateral agreement with the EU on the free crossborder movement of workers has been effective. Since different...

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Immigrazione

Frattini, Tommaso - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2012) 3, pp. 363-407

In this paper I discuss the economic effects of immigration for destination countries, with a focus on labour market adjustments. First, I show the potential effects of immigration on the labour market in a stylized one-output model, and discuss some extensions. Then I focus on empirical...

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Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 2 (2004) 3, pp. 185-205

An urban labour market is in the process of being formed in China. The objective of this paper is to analyse the stage that it has reached. A 1999 household survey is used to investigate whether the labour market has three tiers comprised of recently retrenched and re-employed urban workers,...

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Foreign Capital and Garment Export from Myanmar: Implications for the Labour Process

Myint, Myo Myo; Rasiah, Rajah - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 4 (2012) 3, pp. 151-172

This paper examines the impact of foreign capital inflows on employment, wages and skills, in the export-oriented garment manufacturing sector of Myanmar. The paper argues that global developments driven by the World Trade Organisation have stimulated foreign capital inflows into Myanmar in...

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ANALYSIS OF LABOR MIGRATION IN ROMANIA

CONSUELA, NECSULESCU; GABRIELA, SECARA CARMEN - In: Annals - Economy Series 2 (2014) April, pp. 143-147

of migration, both before the occurrence of the economic crisis in Romania and afterwards is the motivation of the study … in this paper. The research conducted is subject to the analysis of labor migration in Romania, as well as determinants … analysis of labor migration in Romania and in the second part are used regression econometric models to analyze the impact of …

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Brain gain (drain), immigration and global network: Nepalese students in the UK

Bhattarai, Keshab - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 345-365

Nepalese students in UK are struggling to balance tuition and other expenses in the short-run and for the gainful employment in the long run. The opportunity cost of emigration in a labour surplus economy of Nepal is very little in comparison to benefits from increased flow of remittances,...

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Mobilité géographique et salaires à l'entrée sur le marché du travail

Margirier, Gilles - In: Revue d'économie politique 116 (2006) 5, pp. 657-681

We analyse migration for young new entrants on french labour market, when leaving schoolandgettingajob … different thresholds of distance mobility. We find that potential wage net benefit is an important determinant of the migration …

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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)

Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14

Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...

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Deteminants of interregional migration in Spain: new analysis techniques

Maza, Adolfo; Villaverde, Jose - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 4, pp. 133-142

This paper analyses the determinants of internal migration in Spain from a regional standpoint. For this purpose, it …

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