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Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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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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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...
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This paper charts the growth and development of the Latino population of the northeastern U.S. from 1970 to 2015. The relatively small population dominated by Puerto Ricans and concentrated in New York and a few other cities has evolved into a large, diverse, and more geographically dispersed...
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traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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