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integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We …
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The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation, with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...
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The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) significantly expanded public insurance eligibility and coverage for children in "working poor" families. Despite this success, it is estimated that over 6 million children who are eligible for public insurance remain uninsured. An important...
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exploit changes in deportation fear due to the roll-out and intensity of Secure Communities (SC), an immigration enforcement … program that empowers the federal government to check the immigration status of anyone arrested by local police, leading to … participation could expose non-citizens in their network to immigration authorities. We find significant declines in SNAP and ACA …
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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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 … between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages …
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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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