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This paper tests whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. We provide a theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first...
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Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross … means that there is little discernable effect of increased immigration on the wages of native-born workers, but that the …
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migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
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In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …
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-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …
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wages and employment of younger and lesseducated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …
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This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be...
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in the rate of return to schooling among immigrants in Canada. The average quality of educational outcomes in an … positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona’s omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for … an alien to not carry proper documentation and asked police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected …
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