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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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associated with lower employment rates among natives and earlier immigrants, but with relatively small effects on the relative … wage structure. The estimates imply that immigrant arrivals between 1985 and 1990 depressed the employment rate of low …
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In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror … peaked around the year 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. STEM employment shares are just now approaching these …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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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 … by 3 to 4 workers in particular groups, which far exceed estimated effects of an additional immigrant on employment and … employment, the estimated coefficients suggest that continued exponential growth of robots could disrupt job markets in the …
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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state … employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …
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