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  3. Immigration, Race, and Labor: Unionization and Wages in the Canadian Labor Market

    Jeffery G. Reitz, Anil Verma · 2004 · Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society · 21 citations

    In Canada, most racial minorities have lower rates of unionization than do members of the majority workforce. Data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (N= 32,634) show that racial minority immigrants assimilate into unionization over time. However, unionization reduces net minority wage disadvantages only slightly. Union race relations policies should place more emphasis on collective bargaining as well as on unionization.

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  6. The role of labor market institutions in the impact of immigration on wages and employment*

    Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Vasil Yasenov · 2022 · The Scandinavian Journal of Economics · 7 citations

    AbstractWe collect 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration, and we document that the mean and median effects on the relative wage are negative and significantly different from the small positive mean and median effects on the average wage. The pattern is reversed for employment effects where the magnitudes are also smaller. Combining the effect sizes with measures of labor market institutions, we find that institutions might shield native workers from relative wage consequences but reduce the average wage effect of immigration. We do not detect a significant and robust association for the employment effects.

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  10. The Impact of Immigration and Integration Policies On Immigrant-Native Labor Market Hierarchies

    Guzi Martin, Kahanec Martin, Lucia Mýtna Kureková · 2022 · MUNI ECON Working Papers

    Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to or mitigate labor market hierarchies between natives and immigrants. Using a longitudinal model based on individual-level EU LFS and country-level DEMIG POLICY and POLMIG databases, we explore variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps b

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  11. Wages for Immigration!: Labor and Social Reproduction Under Contemporary Capitalism

    Ashley Bohrer · 2020 · Spectre Journal

    Taking global care chains as a starting point, Ashley J. Bohrer points to the numerous ways in which immigration constitutes unpaid social reproductive labor intrinsic to the capitalist system. The polemical call for “Wages for Immigration!” dramatizes the fact that capitalism can never pay for the demands it makes on racialized and exploited care workers.

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