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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Mägi, Kadi - 2016

, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity

Sparber, Chad - 2015

For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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Return Migration as Channel of Brain Gain

Mayr, Karin; Peri, Giovanni - 2008

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …

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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012

We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …

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Migration and Trade: Theory with an Application to the Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2009

explain the patterns of trade and migration as countries remove barriers to trade and to labor mobility. We calibrate the … liberalization which occurred between 1989 and 2004, and then the gains and losses from migration which would occur if barriers to … labor mobility are reduced. The lower barriers to migration result in significant migration of skilled workers from Eastern …

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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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The Labor Market Effects of Reducing the Number of Illegal Immigrants

Chassamboulli, Andri; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

A controversial issue in the US is how to reduce the number of illegal immigrants and what effect this would have on the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country model with search in labor markets and featuring legal and illegal immigrants among the low skilled. We calibrate...

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Building a Better H-1B Program

Sparber, Chad - 2015

The H-1B program allows highly-educated foreign-born labor to temporarily work in the United States. Quotas restrict the number of labor force entrants, however. In many years, all available work permits were allocated by random lottery. This paper argues that an alternative distribution method...

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Immigration and Occupations in Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco; Peri, Giovanni - 2010

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on natives' job specialization in Western Europe. We test whether the inflow of immigrants changes employment rates or the chosen occupation of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first and strong evidence of the...

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