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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant employment rates. We show that even when...
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
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national identity and attitudes towards immigration played. In addition to education, we find that national identity exerted a … East. Whereas, over and above this, concerns about immigration had a quantitatively large and highly significant impact in … identity and concerns about immigration having a larger impact for the English-born. Our findings are then discussed in the …
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Sweden in 2015, and the calculations account for refugees' age, years since immigration, and country of origin. The estimated …
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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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-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market. Using an equilibrium structural model … immigration on male and female workers, and the availability of cheaper child care services. Consistent with the literature …
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