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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise …
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who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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