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migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …
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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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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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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …
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We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to … migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return … exposed to negative firm employment growth. Using an AKM-style model, we identify worker and country-firm fixed effects, as …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...
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Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for … immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment … experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment rates of immigrants compare to those of native-born men? Second, is there …
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