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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...
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Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). We find that occupation and program use variables in a prominent proxy for legal status poorly detect this event. A decade after legalization, the share of...
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have opted for steep minimum wage hikes, which we find have especially improved Hispanics' relative wages, both because … they continue to earn low wages and because they reside disproportionately in those states. Finally, we make predictions …
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We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income growth derived from the universe of tax filers and W-2...
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the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … relative supply of high school dropouts. Nevertheless, data from the 2000 Census shows that relative wages of native dropouts … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …
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of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of immigrants of German origin--so-called ethnic Germans--native Germans are …
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) increased entry of high-wage firms boosts the effect of rising schooling attainment on mean log wages by 25%, and (iii) the …
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immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between … independently of their choice allows a causal interpretation of our estimates. We find that immigrants initially located in places …
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