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correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and …
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can move the market closer to the efficient competitive equilibrium and potentially increase employment and wages for both … program particularly increased employment and wages for low-skill native and immigrant men, and raised French GDP by over 1 …
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market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …
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How does immigration affect labor market opportunities in a receiving country? This paper contributes to the voluminous … use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected labor … in the HWI with immigration across metropolitan areas. These correlations consistently indicate that more immigration is …
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In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers … imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our empirical evidence indicates that both trade and immigration augmented the … immigration increased the effective supply of high school dropouts by 28 percent for men and 31 percent for women. We estimate …
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change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … impact on the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation …
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Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...
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Our paper uses the wealth of information available in the NLS to expand on previous work in several ways. First, we investigate whether there is a meaningful distinction among types of job separations. Traditional analysis has categorized job separations as either employee-initiated (quits) or...
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