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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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