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This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early …
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between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages … immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little …
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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and … wages. While the growth of robots in the 1996-2016 period of our data was too modest to be a major determinant of wages and …
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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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the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
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Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration … comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity, I find that restrictions on H-1B immigration caused foreign affiliate …
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