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Local, open economies within the U.S.: how do industries respond to immigration?

Lewis, Ethan - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2003

regional settlement patterns of immigrants from different countries. Using establishment-level output and capital stock data … settlement patterns of immigrants from different countries. Using establishment-level output and capital stock data from the …

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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2003

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. The author uses instrumental variables based on a...

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Immigration, skill mix, and the choice of technique

Lewis, Ethan - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2005

supply derived from historical regional settlement patterns of immigrants from different parts of the world. ; These results …

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How did the Miami labor market absorb the Mariel immigrants?

Lewis, Ethan - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2004

Card's (1990) well-known analysis of the Mariel boatlift concluded that this mass influx of mostly less-skilled Cubans to Miami had little impact on the labor market outcomes of the city's less-skilled workers. This paper evaluates two explanations for this. First, consistent with an...

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Immigration and the neighborhood

Saiz, Albert; Wachter, Susan - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2006

less attractive (native flight). To instrument for the actual number of new immigrants, the authors deploy a geographic … diffusion model that predicts the number of new immigrants in a neighborhood using lagged densities of the foreign-born in …

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