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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016
Jauer, Julia - 2018
-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia - 2014
new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe.Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
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Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States : The Adjustment of Their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2012
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...
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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugees to the United States : Do Entrepreneurs in the Network Help?
Dagnelie, Olivier - 2018
We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. We analyze the universe of refugee cases without U.S. ties who were resettled in the United States between 2005 and...
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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Social Learning Along International Migrant Networks
Tian, Yuan - 2020
We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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