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Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux
Caiumi, Alessandro; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period … suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment …
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Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation : Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wyse, Angela; Meyer, Gillian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
population, including the first national estimates of income, employment, and safety net participation based on administrative …), veterans' benefits, housing assistance, and mortality. Nearly half of these adults had formal employment in the year they were …
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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006
The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of increased longevity and a reduced birth rate will directly reduce the growth rates of the European economies by slowing the growth of the capital stock and by weakening the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465924
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The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Roles of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2003
The developed word stands at the fore of a phenomenal demographic transition. Over the next 30 years the number of elderly in the U.S., the EU, and Japan will more than double. At the same time, the number of workers available to pay the elderly their government-guaranteed pension and health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468598
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The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and German immigrants fared better than the Irish;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473247
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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications
Kennan, John - 2017
In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455632
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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?
Razin, Assaf - 2014
Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458218
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Migration and Fiscal Competition within a Union
Razin, Assaf - 2013
We develop a stylized EU-type model of a union consisting of rich, capital-abundant and high productivity countries, and poor, capital-scarce and low productivity countries. We address two main issues: the efficiency of tax competition and the effect of factor mobility on the size of the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459379
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The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration
Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460341
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Free vs. Controlled Migration : Bilateral Country Study
Razin, Assaf - 2011
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461827