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This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese immigrants in the United States. A series of U.S. policy changes in the early 1990s made all...
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immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …
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It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting men earn more than men not living with a female partner. This study uses data from the General...
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives. -- business cycle ; recession ; employment ; immigrants …
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U.S. employers can check whether the workers they hire are legally eligible for employment using E-Verify, a free … provide the first examination of whether increases in employer enrollment in the E-Verify system affect employment and …
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We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...
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hold "worse" jobs than U.S. natives, the impact of immigration on U.S. natives' working conditions has received little … attention. This study examines how immigration affected U.S. natives' occupational exposure to workplace hazards and the return … to such exposure over 1990 to 2018. The results indicate that immigration causes less-educated U.S. natives' exposure to …
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This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several...
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higher employment rates among women and higher earnings among men. The results have implications for recent programs that …
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country's labor market: full employment, voluntary unemployment, and minimal wage in combination with involuntary unemployment …, which impedes the firm's productivity. The impact on the wages and / or employment of the native laborers depends on the …
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