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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration - Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Sinning, Mathias - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

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Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis

Brücker, Herbert - 2009

This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … where migrants tend to cluster. In this paper we reconcile the existing evidence by taking another route. We analyze whether … the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …

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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

Hirsch, Boris - 2013

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …

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Skill Mismatches in the EU : Immigrants vs. Natives

Nieto, Sandra - 2013

The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...

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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Brunner, Beatrice - 2014

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...

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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Gathmann, Christina - 2014

liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …

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