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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021

Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...

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The adverse effect of the COVID-19 labor market shock on immigrant employment

Borjas, George J.; Cassidy, Hugh - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial 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...

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Brain drain and LDCs' growth : winners and losers

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Shaking things up : on the stability of risk and time preferences

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020

We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries … original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …

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Self‐selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics

Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...

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Assimilation, changes in cohort quality, and the earnings of immigrants

Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of labor economics 3 (1985) 4, pp. 463-489

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Assimilation and changes in cohort quality revisited : what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s?

Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of labor economics 13 (1995) 2, pp. 201-245

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Monopsony, efficiency, and the regularization of undocumented immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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