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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234896
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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Rethinking the Area Approach: Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005.
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability … of the Mexican Population to predict immigration by skill level within California. Looking at immigration to California …, in turn, explains the counter-intuitive fact that there is a zero correlation between immigration and wage and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540024
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, Dávid … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms
Serrato, Juan Carlos Suárez; Zidar, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers, landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment rules. We develop a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms and workers. Firm owners may earn profits...
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
Boustan, Leah Platt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025619
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Internal Migration in the United States
Wozniak, Abigail; Molloy, Raven; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
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Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?
Sinai, Todd; Paciorek, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...
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