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This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … the variance of the foreigner share across region for identifying the wage and employment effects of immigration, tend to …
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Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of … opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of … this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …
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the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …
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inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants …, and the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that low …, this is not the case. Finally, we survey the pertinent academic literature and conclude that, on the whole, immigration to …
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determinants of immigration. Models that include observations with zero flow values find that recent male immigrants respond to …
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Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …
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Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...
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about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …
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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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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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