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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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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …
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We document substantial heterogeneity in labor market integration, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories. Using newly available data on residence permits in Finland, we establish four facts. First, there are large initial differences in employment and earnings...
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …. Jewish immigration to Israel hailed from Arab countries as well as European countries. While immigration has shaped the rate … consequences of immigration particularly interesting and there is a comprehensive literature on various aspects of Jewish …
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low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
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