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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

Borjas, George J. - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly severe...

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Opening the Door : Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020

, mostly immediate family. There is little evidence that the legalization increased subsequent unauthorized migration; in fact …

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2008

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana - 2008

previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2008

alternative specifications of international migration, estimate the magnitude of migration costs by source-destination pair, and …

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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel - 2002

observable skills there is intermediate or positive selection of immigrants from Mexico. The results also suggest that migration …

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

Ambrosini, J. William - 2011

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …

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