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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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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 questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin by pointing out the strengths and limitations of existing data sources. I then describe six striking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095620
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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...
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540024
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950796
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950885
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
States aid business and technology exchanges with their home countries, but the overall effect that the migration has on the … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226