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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor

Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla i … - 2011

In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production … function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these ….S. These results are used to explain the declining path of the labor income share, common to both economies, and their …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

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Competitive preferences among Asians in the U.S.

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2020

The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance...

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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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Union organizing decisions in a deteriorating environment : the composition of representation elections and the decline in turnout

Farber, Henry S. - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long …

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The rise and fall of the American Jewish PhD

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

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International migration in the long-run : positive selection, negative selection and policy

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … towards new immigrants of lower quality, public assessment of the impact of those immigrants on a deteriorating labor market …, political participation of those impacted, and, as a triggering mechanism, the sudden shocks to the labor market delivered by …

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