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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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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wages

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...

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Assessing the social and macroeconomic impacts of the high-skill labour market integration : the European qualifications framework

Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Kielyte, Julda - 2016

analyses the impact of the EQF on education, skills, migration and the economic growth by performing a conceptual analysis and … European Commission. Whereas education is the main driver of the upward skill mobility, migration drives the spatial skill …

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2010

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2010

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU

Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...

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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people

Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741

migration phenomenon had been amplified and there is an increased young people migration from emergent countries to the innovat … contribute to the amplified migration among youths. We have also highlighted the motivational elements for returning to homeland …

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What drives the urban wage premium? : evidence along the wage distribution

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013

This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...

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