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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to …
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High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …
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include: (1) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the massive immigration to Israel which followed; (2) The Great Moderation … the US, and the contagion of the financial crisis to Europe; and (4) The rise of East Asia high-growth economies …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young … adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age 14 graduate high school and enter college at the same rate as … natives. Refugees that enter as older teenagers have lower attainment with much of the difference attributable to language …
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market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied … and lack a high school diploma, this very large population of high school students is systematically misclassified as high …
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accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any … examining wages in this low-skill group, overturns the finding that Mariel did not affect Miami's wage structure. The wage of … high school dropouts in Miami dropped dramatically, by 10 to 30 percent, suggesting an elasticity of wages with respect to …
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …
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