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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …
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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia
Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024
We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018 - This Draft May 2018
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. …
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006
Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015
migration variables. Two important findings emerge from our analysis. First, there exists a positive impact of migrants' human …
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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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