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immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
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This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
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participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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. -- Immigration ; labor supply ; fertility ; assimilation ; gender …
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successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …
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This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … the variance of the foreigner share across region for identifying the wage and employment effects of immigration, tend to …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … seekers could have beneficial effects on crime rates. -- Crime ; immigration …
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