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Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior : New Evidence
Heffetz, Ori - 2018
Expenditure visibility--the extent to which a household's spending on a consumption category is noticeable to others--is measured in three new surveys, with ~3,000 telephone and online respondents. Visibility shows little change across time (ten years) and survey methods. Four different notions,...
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Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2009
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …
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Savings in Transnational Households : A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador
Ashraf, Nava - 2014
-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …
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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 1986
Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...
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From Immigrants to Robots : The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers
Borjas, George J. - 2019
Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
Collins, William J. - 2018
The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … associated with less upward mobility. Our results contribute to literatures on immigrant assimilation, refugee migration, and the … Age of Mass Migration …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States
Azoulay, Pierre - 2020
Immigration can expand labor supply and create greater competition for native-born workers. But immigrants may also start new firms, expanding labor demand. This paper uses U.S. administrative data and other data resources to study the role of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often...
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly severe...
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Opening the Door : Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020
, mostly immediate family. There is little evidence that the legalization increased subsequent unauthorized migration; in fact …
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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