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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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This paper uses a matched employee-employer dataset using the Productivity and Investment Climate Survey 2007 to assess the relative effect of demand and supply-side characteristics on the wages of native and immigrant workers in Malaysia. In doing so, the study demonstrates noteworthy...
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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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This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...
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that women's economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place …'s agency to make or otherwise influence migration decisions. These two constraining effects on the female share in migrant … powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …
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This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …
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We study the consequences of international migration on labor market outcomes in a developing country. Specifically, we … look at the case of Mexico, where large-scale international migration has led to significant declines in the male … historical migration patterns, we find that when there are relatively fewer men, women are more likely to work, have high …
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