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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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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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data and historical experience. Of course, immigration - like anything else - is not without costs, which are … disproportionately borne by the least educated. A plan to increase employment-based immigration as a way to spur economic growth could be … paired with new programs to help low-skilled U.S. natives and earlier immigrants so that the benefits of immigration are …
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weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …
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This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...
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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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