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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
Card, David E.; Preston, Ian Peter; Dustmann, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
local job density defined for Hispanic poor English speakers or immigrants are more important, and that the density of jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631106
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
Peri, Giovanni; Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selectivity of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927012
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International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?
Keller, Wolfgang; Hovhannisyan, Nune - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025243
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147559
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Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability
Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
language skills drive this. I find they are important. I estimate that the response of immigrants' relative wages to … immigration is concentrated among immigrants with poor English skills. Similarly, immigrants who arrive at young ages, as adults …, both have stronger English skills and exhibit greater substitutability for native-born workers than immigrants who arrive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368128
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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and practice (SciSIPP). This paper describes the contents, methodology and use of the public online COMETS (Connecting Outcome Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294555
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Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups
Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants … estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that equally skilled immigrants and natives are perfect substitutes. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321292
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359896
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper I first analyze the wage effects of immigrants on native workers in the US economy and its top immigrant …. The goal is to establish whether the labor market effects of immigrants have significantly affected the percentage of … significantly in the U.S. As a reference, I also analyze the decade 1990-2000. To calculate the wage impact of immigrants I adopt a …
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