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Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities : The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks
Borjas, George J. - 2006
correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466148
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322844
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Issues in the economics of immigration
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001390807
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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2017
Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455445
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The Wage Impact of the Marielitos : Additional Evidence
Borjas, George J. - 2016
market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456822
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The Wage Impact of the Marielitos : A Reappraisal
Borjas, George J. - 2015
accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457081
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Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China : How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors
Borjas, George J. - 2015
The largest and most important flow of scientific talent in the world is the migration of international students to the doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate the causal effect of this flow on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457570
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Cognitive Mobility : Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas
Borjas, George J. - 2012
Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460046
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
Borjas, George J. - 2012
It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of their American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460858
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Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups
Borjas, George J. - 2011
The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461198