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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

skill levels (education). We calibrate the model to match the features of the Western European countries (EU-15) and the new …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California

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

the demand for complementary production tasks and skills. We consider workers of different education and age as … substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of …

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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

the crucial assumption that U.S. and foreign-born workers with similar education and experience levels may nevertheless be …

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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

average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates … complementary to less educated workers. Our calibrated model predicts that workers with high school education or less are employed … school education only increases private returns. The model predictions are tested using data on U.S. states. We use …

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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

substitutes for U.S.- born workers within the same education-experience-gender group (because they choose different occupations …

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Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete for similar jobs. In a simple model exploiting...

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

that, after controlling for education and experience levels, native and migrant workers appear to be imperfect substitutes …

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Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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