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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …
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anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number of refugees from Syria and other broken countries sought to … migrate to EU countries (along very dangerous routes), and these refugees were met with fierce resistance, at least in some …
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In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic and distributional effects using a quantitative overlapping generations model calibrated using German micro data to replicate education and productivity differentials between...
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Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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employment or relocate elsewhere. Although the higher minimum wage reduced employment for unskilled workers, anti …, but those losses were offset by employment gains at surviving plants. The message is a mixed one: activism significantly …
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-level data on income, employment, unemployment, and the area's racial composition from the published volumes of the federal … blacks' income and employment that were economically significant and that may have been larger in the long run (1960 …
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In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …
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