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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?

Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits...

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The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Lee, Jongkwan - 2019

We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....

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The Employment Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Evidence from the 1930's

Lee, Jongkwan - 2017

During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was that repatriations would reduce local unemployment and give jobs to Americans, alleviating the...

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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2015

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences : Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana - 2007

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration costs, the increase in international migration has...

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments

Peri, Giovanni - 2004

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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