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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2009

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John - 2017

Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...

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Bidding for Brains : Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

McAusland, Carol - 2009

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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From Immigrants to Robots : The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers

Borjas, George J. - 2019

Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...

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Is A Great Labor Shortage Coming? Replacement Demand in the Global Economy

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

This paper assesses the claim the the US faces an impending labor shortage due to the impending retirement of baby boomers and slow growth of the US work force, and that the country should orient labor market and educational policies to alleviate this prospective shortage. I find that this...

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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Low-Skilled Immigration

Hanson, Gordon - 2017

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …

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Firm Dynamics and Immigration : The Case of High-Skilled Immigration

Waugh, Michael E. - 2017

changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …

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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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High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Non-Routine-Biased Technical Change

Jaimovich, Nir - 2017

-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such …

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The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin

Dinkelman, Taryn - 2016

We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...

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