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The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks

Caballero, Maria Ésther; Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using newly validated data on geographic migration networks, we study how labor demand shocks in the United States propagate across the border with Mexico. We show that the large exogenous decline in US employment brought about by the Great Recession affected demographic and economic outcomes in...

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Taken by Storm : Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration

Mahajan, Parag - 2017

measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents ("green card …

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Migrants and the Making of America : The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration

Sequeira, Sandra - 2017

We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …

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Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017

micro-level aspects of the relationship between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise …

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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications

Kennan, John - 2017

In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...

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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run

Hanson, Gordon - 2016

How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...

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Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis : Evidence from Immigration to Canada

Helliwell, John F. - 2016

Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...

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Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries : Lessons From U.S. Immigrants

Lagakos, David - 2016

How much does life-cycle human capital accumulation vary across countries? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying U.S. immigrants, who come from a wide variety of countries but work in a common labor market. We document that returns to potential experience among U.S. immigrants are...

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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?

Razin, Assaf - 2014

Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...

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