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To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto : Ethnicity and Residential Segregation

Borjas, George J. - 1997

This paper analyzes the link between ethnicity and the choice of residing in ethnically segregated neighborhoods. Data drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth show that there exist strong human capital externalities both within and across ethnic groups. As a result, the segregation...

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Immigration And Self-Selection

Borjas, George J. - 1988

opportunities and also differ in the way they ration entry through their immigration policies. Potential immigrants compare the … the way in which immigrants are sorted among host countries in terms of both their observed and unobserved characteristics …

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Self-Selection of Emigrants : Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

Borjas, George J. - 2015

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...

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The Economic Progress of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1998

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of the economic progress experienced by immigrants in the U ….S. labor market. The theoretical framework illustrates that the relationship between the entry wage of immigrants and the … wage growth is positive but this correlation is weakened and perhaps turns negative when we compare immigrants who start …

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Foreign Competition, Market Power and Wage Inequality : Theory and Evidence

Borjas, George J. - 1993

In this paper, we present theory and evidence on the link between wage inequality and foreign competition in concentrated industries. We develop a simple model in which the impact of foreign competition on the relative wages of an economy depends on the market structure of the industry...

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