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We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally …-generation immigrants after controlling for a large set of individual characteristics and origin and destination country fixed effects. We … find a significant left-wing bias of second-generation immigrants, comparable in magnitude to the left-wing bias associated …
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The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of … immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization and the … university education. Controlling for education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided …
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immigrants admitted on the basis of family ties. Finally, since there is no evidence that the variance of immigrant earnings … immigrants in the 1971 and 1981 Canadian censuses … earnings growth, (2) the labor market implications of admissions policies that place different weights on the work skills …
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. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of … for earnings, but we do not always know why …
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newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
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-constructed panel data, we find that higher NCA enforceability diminishes workers' earnings and job mobility, with larger effects among … are unable to leverage tight labor markets to increase earnings. We motivate these findings by embedding NCA … enforceability in a search model with bargaining. Finally, higher NCA enforceability exacerbates gender and racial earnings gaps …
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The boundary discontinuity method of causal inference may yield misleading results if a policy's impacts do not stop at the border of the implementing jurisdiction. We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the...
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...
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Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
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We study teachers' choices about how to allocate class time across different instructional activities, for example, lecturing, open discussion, or individual practice. Our data come from secondary schools in England, specifically classes preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when...
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