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Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 percent labor supply shift is associated with a 3 to 4...
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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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A precondition for the absence of labor-market competition between immigrants and natives is that they differ in their … immigrants will be observed experiencing inferior workplace amenities than natives, and that the presence of immigrants will … observationally similar immigrants and native whites enjoy very similar packages of amenities: The precondition for noncompetition …
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percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of …. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all … immigrants have different skills and tend to work in different occupations then natives and hence they may raise productivity and …
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In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...
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Between the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of World War I improvements in transportation and communication encouraged increasing interregional and international economic integration. This paper traces and analyzes the progress of increasing labor market integration in the...
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In the U.S. there are large differences across States in the extent to which college education is subsidized, and there are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are apparently motivated in part by the perceived benefits...
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immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but … negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …
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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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This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to …. However, low-skilled immigrants, especially those from Mexico, respond even more strongly than high-skilled native …
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