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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration costs, the increase in international migration has...

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Foreign STEM Workers and Native Wages and Employment in U.S. Cities

Peri, Giovanni; Shih, Kevin Y.; Sparber, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Scientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM workers) are fundamental inputs in scientific innovation and technological adoption, the main drivers of productivity growth in the U.S. In this paper we identify the effect of STEM worker growth on the wages and...

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Immigrants' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States

Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Wright, Greg C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

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