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Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …
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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...
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How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...
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the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …
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global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are … labor by a factor of four, implying large spatial inefficiency. Short-term effects on households were modest. Effects on …
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pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …
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A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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