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The largest and most important flow of scientific talent in the world is the migration of international students to the doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate the causal effect of this flow on the...
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It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of their American...
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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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immigrant households to receive assistance, many states chose to protect their immigrant populations by offering state …
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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage structure and internal migration behavior for native-born workers in local labor markets. Using data from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is...
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Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
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, and cultural shifts that take place during the life cycle of the immigrant population, but also on the adjustment process … experienced by the immigrant household across generations. This paper documents the evidence on social mobility in the immigrant … outcomes experienced by ethnic groups in the immigrant generation and the outcomes experienced by their children, and a weaker …
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significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 …
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The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign...
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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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