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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean … natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre …-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …
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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …
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We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of more than 230 million of...
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rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities … to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind … immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor …
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characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks …
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …
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The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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