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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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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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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage …-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher out-migration rates … immigration on wages in a local labor market by 40 to 60 percent, depending on whether the labor market is defined at the state or …
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Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers … 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 …
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How does immigration affect labor market opportunities in a receiving country? This paper contributes to the voluminous … use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected labor … in the HWI with immigration across metropolitan areas. These correlations consistently indicate that more immigration is …
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can move the market closer to the efficient competitive equilibrium and potentially increase employment and wages for both … program particularly increased employment and wages for low-skill native and immigrant men, and raised French GDP by over 1 …
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