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Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …
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association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …
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. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …
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What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
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This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … examine the impact of immigration on the fiscal budget, and the potentially unequal impact of the ensuing tax implications on …
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Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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