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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US

Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....

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Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and graduates. This paper revisits the estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that...

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by...

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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal

Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect … disappears once the analysis adjusts for such heterogeneity. As an example, the finding of immigrant-native complementarity … low-skilled workers ). More generally, we cannot reject the hypothesis that comparably skilled immigrant and native …

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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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