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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …

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Treading Water in the High-tech Global Economy: An Investigation of United States Immigration Policy with an Eye on the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry Z. - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses objections to immigration on the basis of their skill level—examining the historical results of … United States immigration policy in an effort to support a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to … include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. Not only does an historical …

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Socio-economic characteristics, completed fertility, and the transition from low to high order parities in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - EconWPA - 2003

The present paper reports a study on the socio-economic determinants of completed fertility in Mexico. Special attention is given to how socio- economic factors such as religion and ethnic group affect the likelihood of transition from low to high order parities. This methodological approach...

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Understanding Changes in Mâori Incomes and Income Inequality 1997-2003

Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reports findings from a study of changes in Mâori income levels and income dispersion between 1997 and 2003. Data from Statistics New Zealand’s Income Survey are used to describe and evaluate the main changes in the Mâori income distribution in this period, which was marked by...

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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico; Roland G. Fryer Jr. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...

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Determinants of Economic Growth Across Embedded Economies: A Transformational Analogy of Mining Population for Human Capital

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004

Emerging evidence shows a strong correlation between institutions and economic growth, and explains the recent research shift from focus on resources and resource productivity to institutions as determinants of economic growth. The positive correlation is read by some as indication that...

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in...

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Family background and schooling outcomes before and during the transition - Evidence from the Baltic countries

Hazans, Mihails; Rastrigina, Olga; Trapeznikova, Ija - EconWPA - 2005

Parental education is found to have a strong positive effect on propensity to enroll in and complete secondary and tertiary education, both in Soviet times and during transition, but mother’s education effect have been weakening. A human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russian...

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