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immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages …
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Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...
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Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however, examine the … direct link between immigration and growth. And the evidence on the outcomes that the literature does examine (such as the … what we know about the relationship between immigration and growth. The canonical Solow model implies that a one …
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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration …
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arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
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same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and … correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …
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The ultimate impact of immigration on the United States obviously depends not only on the economic, social, political …
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