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Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus
Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate the economic consequences of immigration in a two-country, two-skill, overlapping-generations framework, where immigration, population, human and physical capital formation, and economic growth are endogenous variables. We go beyond extant literature by integrating physical capital...
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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA
Kuka, Elira - 2018
This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We obtain variation in the benefits of schooling from the enactment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in 2012, which provides work authorization and...
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660096
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1991
Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475320
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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program
Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the introduction of Canada's Start-up Visa Program in 2013. We demonstrate that … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … show that Asian immigrants (who have a higher representation in Canada than in the U.S.) are disproportionately more likely …
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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends
Beaudry, Paul - 1997
earnings in Canada. When looking at the pattern for women, we find only minor differences in the age-earning relationships …
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
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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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
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Issues in the economics of immigration
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000
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Illegal Immigration : The Trump Effect
Hoekstra, Mark; Orozco-Aleman, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of increasingly provocative anti-immigrant politicians in both Europe and the United States. We examine whether the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who made illegal immigration and border enforcement a centerpiece of his campaign, reduced illegal...
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