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Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2010
of workers located around the world, is discussed. A global wage equation that nests the Mincer specification is … GDP across countries has opposite and significant effects on the number and quality of migrants to the United States …
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Immigration and distribution of wages in Austria
Horvath, Thomas - 2011
Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well as the wage level. While there are small , but...
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The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants
Parey, Matthias - 2015
We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries … are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019
The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...
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How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution : International Analyses
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2006
This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately for those from English-speaking and non-English...
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On the foreign to native wage differential in Germany: does the home country matter?
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2020
Frage einher, ob Deutschland für Migranten ein attraktives Ziel darstellt - zahlen Arbeitgeber genug, um für Migranten …
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The impact of trade and technology on wage components
Borrs, Linda; Knauth, Florian - 2016
We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe (the East) on the wage structure within German manufacturing industries. Utilizing the method by Abowd et al. (1999), we decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find...
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...
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