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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

' education. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain Drain ; Immigration Policy …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …

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Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households

Kinnan, Cynthia - 2015

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … later, hukou reforms in cities which sent SDY increased migration in provinces where those SDY temporarily resided. Using …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so …

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Deterring Illegal Entry : Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...

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Do Immigrants Delay Retirement and Social Security Claiming?

Lopez, Mary - 2019

As the share of older immigrants residing in the U.S. begins to rise, it is important to understand how immigrants' retirement behavior and security compare to that of natives. This question has implications for the impact of immigration on government finances and for the retirement security of...

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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …

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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come from, and Why?

Clark, Ximena; Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a system that emphasized family reunification. Some...

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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2021

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the...

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Immigration Policy Levers for Us Innovation and Startups

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William - 2021

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the US immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We...

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