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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia

Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019

The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …

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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia

Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32

I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …

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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer, Robert - 2016

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...

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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis

Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022

Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...

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The labor market effects of opening the border : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Peri, Giovanni - 2017

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...

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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015

local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China …

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