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Limits to Wage Growth : Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Jain, Apoorva - 2017
to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950909
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Mind the Gap : A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - 2011
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118775
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Overeducation Among Immigrants in Sweden : Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
Andersson, Pernilla - 2012
extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104048
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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2012
graduates, relative to all other individuals, we find that net migration flows are college-intensive, relative to the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112765
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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155570
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324829
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Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2014
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from … the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out-migration … and out-migration behavior. We find that simple models lead to biased estimates of the wage growth of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043689
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Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden : The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories
Luik, Marc-André - 2016
Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain the employment gap between male immigrants and natives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990867
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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Foged, Mette - 2015
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024934
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Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women
Adserà, Alícia - 2014
We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the labour market and experiencing little career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047864