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likely returned to their country of origin. We argue that, at present, it appears that A8 immigration has tended to increase …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …
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The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education …
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in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
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This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration – the politically-driven exodus of ethnic …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
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find a positive effect of immigration on wages of natives and on specialization of natives in complex occupations, that is …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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