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The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …
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from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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indicate that immigration differentially impacts native worker wages across skill sets. In particular, for a 10% increase in …I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …
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-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …
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Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …
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experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …
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calculations presented suggest that immigration depressed the wages of native dropouts by as much as 3 percent and can account for …This paper examines the effects of changes in the supply of immigrant labor on the wages of natives. Estimates are …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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