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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dvorkin, Maximiliano; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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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

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...

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Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete for similar jobs. In a simple model exploiting...

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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 easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...

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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

different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1°×1° geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …

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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...

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U ….S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as …

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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

I show that a CES production-function-based approach with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the employment (rather than wage) response by skill to...

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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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