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somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …
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federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum … competition induced by low-skill immigration. The results are robust to instrumenting immigration and state effective minimum …
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effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …
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state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
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10 immigrants have very high employment rates and also have levels of education that are comparable to the native labour … Ireland than would otherwise have been the case as a result of the labour supply increase brought about by this immigration … flow. -- EU enlargement ; EU new member states ; Ireland ; immigration …
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The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
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capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
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The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
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somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321262
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325232