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Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux

Caiumi, Alessandro; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period … suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment …

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Student work during secondary education, educational achievement, and later employment : a dynamic approach

Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2022

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …

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The Dynamics of R&D and Innovation in the Short-Run and in the Long-Run

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

innovation output as measured by patent applications. We first estimate a long-run cointegration relation using recently … analyse the impulse response of new ideas to a shock to R&D or to a shock to innovation by estimating an error correction … mechanism. We find that internationally generated ideas have a very significant impact in helping innovation in a country. As a …

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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...

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Dynamically optimal R&D subsidization

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas; Trimborn, Timo - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 3, pp. 516-534

This paper characterizes the optimal time path of R&D and capital subsidization. Starting from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then slightly decrease over time. There is a small loss in welfare, however, from...

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Human Capital and Externalities in Cities

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We combine growth theory with US Census data on individual schooling and wages to estimate the aggregate return to human capital and human capital externalities in cities. Our estimates imply that a one year increase in average schooling in cities increases their aggregate labour productivity by...

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Cities and Cultures

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...

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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an approach that yields positive average human capital...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different US cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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