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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
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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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209780
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664509
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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429412
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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412707
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Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy : evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607505