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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to … small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …
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immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market …
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rise of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages by less than one percent and not increase … immigrant labor supply shock on native competitors. -- labor market effects of immigration ; skill groups ; wage elasticity …
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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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) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … understand this asymmetry and the positive impact of immigration on wages, we explore the link between immigration and the …This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 …
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low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings … isexamined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is foundthat immigration has a largenegative effect on the … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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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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This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
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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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