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The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473247
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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006
increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465924
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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?
Razin, Assaf - 2014
Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458218
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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs
Borjas, George J. - 1995
This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473495
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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 1994
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474217
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On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade
Borjas, George J. - 1991
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 … school dropouts between 1980 and 1988 can be attributed to the trade and immigration flows. In addition, our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475244
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1991
immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475320
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Immigration and the Family
Borjas, George J. - 1990
placement in the immigration chain …
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The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1989
This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a … simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between … some displacement out of low-wage immigrant-intensive industries. We find little effect of immigration on the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475922
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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480358