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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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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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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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in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse …
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from the O*NET skill taxonomy, we create more homogeneous skill groups, enabling a precise analysis of immigration's impact … appears negative. These contradictory findings suggest that the impact of immigration on native wages varies significantly …
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. -- Immigration ; labor supply ; fertility ; assimilation ; gender …
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More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...
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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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