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through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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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 …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …
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through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage …
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In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the … zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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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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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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