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study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …
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natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …
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society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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Large immigration flows during the 1995-2007 period increased the weight of foreigners living in Spain to 12 % of the …
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the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration …
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This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent … citations is found to be positive and statistically significant. Additionally, the coefficient on immigration is found to be …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …
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An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less...
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