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Ortega, Francesc - 2013

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …

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The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria

Peri, Giovanni - 2020

Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...

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The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Lee, Jongkwan - 2019

We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....

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The Labor Market Effects of Reducing the Number of Illegal Immigrants

Peri, Giovanni; Chassamboulli, Andri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

-skilled natives and it increases income per native. …

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania : Evidence and Long-Run Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2012

This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...

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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants

Ortega, Francesc - 2012

-migrants. Our estimates show that international migration flows are highly responsive to income per capita at destination. This …

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Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States

Peri, Giovanni - 2020

Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...

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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms' potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and characteristics...

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Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

Hines, Annie Laurie - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification relies on increases in the deportation rate driven by the introduction of the Secure Communities (SC) program, an immigration enforcement program based on local-federal cooperation...

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