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-track schools. Second, using new data, I show that for both men and women, the additional schooling induced by the reform had close … to zero impact on a range of labor market outcomes including earnings. Third, I show that lower-track schools featured …
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10% higher than one would estimate using in-state earnings exclusively, though the extent of bias differs substantially … across contexts. The impact of obtaining a 2-year CTE credential is also understated, as are earnings differences across …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States … during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that … young vs. older immigrants, and we quantify explanatory factors like education, language fluency, and persistence from …
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This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in …
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survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor …
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We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...
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) increased entry of high-wage firms boosts the effect of rising schooling attainment on mean log wages by 25%, and (iii) the …
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Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and their contributions to local economic development. The...
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increases young adult earnings by at least 1 to 2 percent, with larger effects for males. These effects show up at earlier ages …'s outcomes. The longer-term effects on child earnings alone are large enough that the transfer pays for itself through subsequent …
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