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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 …
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Bidding for Brains : Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
McAusland, Carol - 2009
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration increases the expected returns to skills in poor countries, linking the possibility of migrating (brain drain) with incentives to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is...
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The roles of immigrants and foreign students in US science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Ganguli, Ina (ed.); Kahn, Shulamit Beth (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research / Workshop <2018, … - 2020
Introduction / Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie --I. Location choices of international students and return migration.Return migrants' self-selection : evidence for Indian inventors /Stefano Breschi, Francesco Lissoni, and Ernest Miguelez --Will the U.S. keep the best and the...
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The Effect of Immigration on Productivity : Evidence from US States
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill bias. We use the location of a state relative to the...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Chiquiar, Daniel - 2002
In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test Borjas' negative-selection hypothesis that in poor...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration : Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006
migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
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Immigration, trade, and the labor market
Abowd, John M. (ed.); Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor) - 1991
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Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada
Murphy, Kevin M. - 1998
Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the … fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of ….S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both …
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