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This paper estimates the impact of male immigration on wages and employment of native-born male workers. The papers contribution to the existing literature is the introduction of explicit controls for native net internal migration. The results suggest that migration controls are significant and...
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This article tests for the existence of nationality discrimination in the English professional soccer league. Although wage equations have typically been used by labor economists to identify discrimination, the approach may be plagued by unobserved productivity characteristics that are...
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This paper examines how immigrant enclaves influence labor market outcomes. We examine the effect of ethnic concentration on both immigrant earnings and employment in high immigration states using the non-public use, 1-in-6 sample of the 2000 U.S. Census. Although we find that there is some...
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This article seeks to improve on previous estimates of the impact of immigration on native wages by using an occupational segmentation approach that directly controls for regional migration and other shifts in the native-born U.S. labor supply. The U.S. labor market is segmented by occupation in...
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"The goal of this article is to examine how immigrant enclaves influence labor market outcomes. We examine the effect of ethnic concentrations on earnings in the state of California. Individual-level wage equations that control for several observable human capital and demographic characteristics...
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This paper seeks to improve on previous estimates of the impact of immigration on native wages by using an occupational segmentation approach that directly controls for regional migration and other shifts in native-born labor supply. The labor market is segmented by occupation in order to...
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We examine the impact of immigration policy on the employment propensity and assimilation of immigrants using a pooled cross-section of the 1994--2004 Current Population Surveys (CPS). The results are generally consistent with positive immigrant employment assimilation. A Blinder--Oaxaca style...
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