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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to … prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction … to migrants seeking protection, beyond humanitarian policy concerns, carry substantial economic costs. …
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-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … 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 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...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- international migration ; effects of immigration …
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We simulate the impact of an increase in immigration into the Atlantic provinces based on the FOCUS macro … immigration for the country as a whole. The positive outcome encompasses higher GDP and GDP per capita, higher consumption, and …
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. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada … in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
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How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The …
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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
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