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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
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We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally … impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of ….g. wages). We propose a new re-parametrisation of the control function, which is linear in case of a normal error structure …
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United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
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We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican immigrants increased 1-2% a year at the traditional destinations, but remained mostly statistically...
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effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find 12-28 percent effects on average wages. The wage effect mostly reverses …
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the joint estimation of firm and worker fixed effects. We find that changes in ownership do not tend to affect wages …
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We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with …-2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of different ownership, and …
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