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into the United States and Europe, with the coming three decades, which will see sharp reductions in labor-supply growth in … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …
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The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of … increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
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From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …
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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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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration …
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It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
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In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the …
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