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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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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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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies...

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The Great Mexican Emigration

Hanson, Gordon; McIntosh, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th...

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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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Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon; McIntosh, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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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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