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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
Bohn, Sarah - 2013
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010
immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144382
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Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives … employment. These average effects mask considerable heterogeneity across groups: while younger natives experience larger wage … effects, employment responses are particularly pronounced for older natives. This pattern is inconsistent with standard models …
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No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander - 2016
. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983016
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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088336
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Administrative Border Effects in COVID-19 Related Mortality
Berta, Paolo; Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiorio, Carlo V.; … - 2021
Does the organisation of healthcare systems affect health outcomes? To answer this question, we analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the healthcare organisational models among Italian regions, which makes Italy an...
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Profiling at the Canadian Border : An Economist's Viewpoint
DeVoretz, Don J. - 2021
Scrutiny at the Canadian border to heighten security and simultaneously reduce type one (false positives) and type two (false negatives) errors utilize substantial resources as well as imposing opportunity costs on Canada in terms of time and trade diversion. One maligned strategy to minimize...
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Tax Elasticity of Border Sales : A Meta-Analysis
Huynh, Dat; Sokolova, Anna; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2022
When regions in close proximity have different tax rates, residents may engage in cross-border shopping and take advantage of tax differentials. The extent of this activity can be captured by the tax elasticity of border sales (TEBS). We collect 749 estimates of TEBS reported in 60 studies, and...
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Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States
Bertoli, Simone; Laouénan, Morgane; Valette, Jérôme - 2023
We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of illegal aliens are apprehended along the southwest border. Apprehensions can increase the salience of...
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Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Park, Brian - 2022
effectively a tax on temporary employment, and as such it incentivizes the reallocation of work along the task spectrum. Employers …
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