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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but … countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …
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85 percent of Italian men aged 18-33 live with their parents. We argue that Italian parents like to live with their children and a rise in their income makes it possible for them to offer their children higher consumption in exchange for their presence at home. Children prefer to live on their...
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives' labour …
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual's ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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). This might have consequences for immigration policy - how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
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marriage, cohabitation and inter-marriage, fertility and the employment of women. In all these dimensions we find that the …
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the … wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively …
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How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … offshoring has no effect on native employment in the aggregate, while the effect of immigration on native employment is positive … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …
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We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
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