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The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts

Card, David E.; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes … intensity within narrowly defined industries. Such adjustments could be readily explained if Mexican immigrant inflows had large …

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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David E.; Preston, Ian Peter; Dustmann, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

the economic and social impacts of immigration, as well as on the desirability of increasing or reducing immigrant inflows …

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Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?

Card, David E.; DiNardo, John Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of … 1970 to predict skill-group specific relative immigrant inflows over the 1980s. Despite wide variation across cities in the … size and relative skill composition of immigrant population changes we find no evidence of selective out-migration by …

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major cities, differential immigrant inflows are strongly correlated with the … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin …

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ball, Laurence; Hofstetter, Marc; Roux, Nicolás De - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...

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The NAIRU in Theory and Practice

Ball, Laurence; Mankiw, N. Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper discusses the NAIRU -- the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. It first considers the role of the NAIRU concept in business cycle theory, arguing that this concept is implicit in any model in which monetary policy influences both inflation and unemployment. The exact...

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Hysteresis in Unemployment: Old and New Evidence

Ball, Laurence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper argues that hysteresis helps explain the long-run behavior of unemployment. The natural rate of unemployment is influenced by the path of actual unemployment, and hence by shifts in aggregate demand. I review past evidence for hysteresis effects and present new evidence for 20...

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Okun's Law: Fit at Fifty?

Ball, Laurence; Loungani, Prakash; Leigh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper asks how well Okun's Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and in twenty advanced economies since 1980. We find that Okun's Law is a strong and stable relationship in most countries, one that did not change substantially during the Great Recession....

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