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immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
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Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.
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We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved timevarying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the “new” and “candidate” member countries...
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Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...
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The pace and incidence of improvements to oceanic travel conditions for American immigrants, during the quarter century preceeding the First World War, were significantly constrained by shipping lines’ capacity considerations. The improvements had no detectable impact on the overall volume of...
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different immigration policies. On the one hand, skill-neutral change implies an immigrant skill distribution that is dominated …-skill immigration along with high-skill immigration. We show consistency of our model's predictions with data from the United States and …
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The advent of rising immigration has spurred research into a number of important issues insofar as the indigenous labor …. Others, like the interrelationships among immigration flows, African-American male earnings, employment, and incarceration … association among immigration, Black male employment rates, and Black male incarceration rates over the period 1962-2006, ceteris …
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The study of the relationship between immigration, organized crime and economic development is a subject of great … guidelines for the relationship between immigration and economic development on one side and the other between immigration and … the phenomenon of immigration in our country. …
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. Almost three quarters of Americans believe immigration increases crime, yet existing academic research has shown no such … economically meaningful impact of immigration on crime. Consistent with the economic model of crime this effect is strongest for … “immigration surplus” substantially, but would most likely not reverse its sign. …
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experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment …
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