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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …
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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906225
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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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879381
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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We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work …. Native workers in local labor markets that experienced higher rates of immigration are more likely to work day shifts and …
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performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task supply, thereby reducing downward wage … might explain why economic analyzes commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work …. Native workers in local labor markets that experienced higher rates of immigration are more likely to work day shifts and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213672
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …
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