scholarly journals The Impact of Immigration on Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Algerian Independence War

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3210-3260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Edo

Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France resulting from Algerian independence in 1962. I measure the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of pre-existing native workers across French regions between 1962 and 1976. I find that regional wages decreased between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after. I also investigate the dynamics of skill-specific wages in response to the regional penetration of repatriates and find that the wages of high and low educated native workers declined initially but fully recovered by 1976.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gunadi

AbstractLow-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household production, reducing barriers for women to enter the labor market. Therefore, policies that reduce the number of low-skilled immigrants who work predominantly in low-skilled service occupations may have an unintended consequence of lowering women’s participation in the labor market. This article examines the labor supply impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA), which led to a large decline in the low-skilled immigrant workforce of the state. The analysis shows no evidence that LAWA statistically significantly affected US-born women’s labor supply in Arizona. This finding is partly explained by an increase in native workers in household service occupations due to LAWA, which offset the decline in immigrants in these occupations and caused the cost of household services to be relatively uninfluenced by the passage of LAWA.


2017 ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanova ◽  
A. Balaev ◽  
E. Gurvich

The paper considers the impact of the increase in retirement age on labor supply and economic growth. Combining own estimates of labor participation and demographic projections by the Rosstat, the authors predict marked fall in the labor force (by 5.6 million persons over 2016-2030). Labor demand is also going down but to a lesser degree. If vigorous measures are not implemented, the labor force shortage will reach 6% of the labor force by the period end, thus restraining economic growth. Even rapid and ambitious increase in the retirement age (by 1 year each year to 65 years for both men and women) can only partially mitigate the adverse consequences of demographic trends.


2021 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Danilo Cavapozzi ◽  
Marco Francesconi ◽  
Cheti Nicoletti

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 621-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Távora ◽  
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Denis M. Zhuravlyov

The author discusses the development of an economic-mathematical model for assessing the impact of regional budget expenditures on the average wage for solving the problems of analyzing macroeconomic indicators and forming strategic planning tools for the development of the regional socioeconomic system. The Object of the Study - expenses of the regional budget of the constituent entity of the Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, aimed at developing and maintaining the infrastructure contributing to the provision of comfortable working conditions for citizens. The Subject of the Study - methods of economic and mathematical modelling, processes of formation of the average wage. The Purpose of the Study. Development of an economic and mathematical model for assessing the impact of regional budget expenditures on the average wage level for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the effectiveness of the totality of measures arising in the process of its implementation. The Main Provisions of the Article. The labour market is the basis of a market economy and indicator, the importance of which makes it possible to draw conclusions both about the state of the economy as a whole and about the success of the reforms and transformations, in particular. His condition directly affects the performance indicators of the socio-economic system of the region: productivity, profitability, growth, etc. Research and identification of factors that have a significant impact on the processes of formation and functioning of the labor market is of not only theoretical, but practical interest. The following tasks have been solved: the economic and mathematical models are formalized; the layout of the indices characterizing the object of study; the corresponding mathematical apparatus is selected; software application developed; the proof of model performance is performed. As a methodological apparatus, methods of regression and correlation analysis were used. As a result, an economic-mathematical model of the category «labour market efficiency» was obtained, the functionality of which is sufficient to substantiate causal relationships between indicators that determine the nature of its functioning. Using the obtained results in practice, it is possible to reasonably form a system of priority long-term guidelines for the development of the socio-economic system of the region, drawn up in the form of relevant program documents. The developed software can be used as a module of a decision support system in the formation and development of a strategy for the region’s accelerated development.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-574
Author(s):  
Dina Shatnawi ◽  
Price Fishback

Most studies of female workers in the 1940s focus on labor supply. We use the basics of supply and demand to measure the impact of WWII on the short- and medium-run demand for female workers in manufacturing. Demand rose for both salaried and production female workers during the war and then fell after the war. However, the post-war demands for both groups were substantially higher than before the war and higher than the levels that would have been reached had the demands followed a counterfactual growth path from the boom period in the 1920s.


1994 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Aldrich Finegan ◽  
Robert A. Margo

Economic analysis of the labor supply of married women has long emphasized the impact of the unemployment of husbands—the added worker effect. This article re-examines the magnitude of the added worker effect in the waning years of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the labor supply of married women during this period failed to take account of various institutional features of New Deal work relief programs, which reduced the size of the added worker effect.


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