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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education.However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good …
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This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives … employment. These average effects mask considerable heterogeneity across groups: while younger natives experience larger wage … effects, employment responses are particularly pronounced for older natives. This pattern is inconsistent with standard models …
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