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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration : Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006
wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International … migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466338
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A model of Scandinavian emigration : 1870 - 1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - In: European economic review : EER 39 (1995) 3, pp. 557-564
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464354
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461382
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Market Access and Migration : Evidence from the Panama Canal Opening during the First Great Migration
Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the influence of transportation infrastructure on migration decisions in the context of the Great … Migration in the United States. Focusing on the opening of the Panama Canal in 1920, we isolate the effect of improved economic … opportunities from reduced migration costs. Using full-count Census data, we find that Southern African American migrants preferred …
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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...
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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2009
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463243
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High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in U.S. Employment
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror the cycle of boom and bust in the U.S. technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456057
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When Scale and Replication Work : Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments
Heller, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Because successful human capital interventions often fail to scale or replicate, public investment decisions require understanding how program size, context, and implementation shape program effects. This paper uses two new randomized controlled trials of summer youth employment programs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510583