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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Papps, Kerry L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor …

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for …

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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

to calculate the various effects of immigrant labor on U.S.-born labor. We introduce such a production function, making …

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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this problem. The impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born...

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Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Wright, Greg C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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