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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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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Stephan, Paula E.; Scellato, Giuseppe; Franzoni, Chiara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950868
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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' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210994
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
intensive margin: the firms that began to lobby for immigration were those who were sensitive to H-1B policy changes and who …
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A Spatial Knowledge Economy
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper develops the first system of cities model with costly idea exchange as the agglomeration force. Our model replicates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553382
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
abroad without the support of local joint venture partners. Thus, this paper points out that immigration can enhance the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251495
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A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227919
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Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625928
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The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631681