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International migration and human rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

"Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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Imperfect substitution between immigrants and natives : a reappraisal

Borjas, George J.; Grogger, Jeff; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2008

"In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...

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The great Mexican emigration

Hanson, Gordon H.; McIntosh, Craig - 2007

"In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for one third of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last 25 years of the 20th...

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Attracting talent : location choices of foreign-born PhDs in the US

Grogger, Jeff; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

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International migration, self-selection, and the distribution of wages : evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2002

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Substitution between immigrants, natives, and skill groups

Borjas, George J.; Grogger, Jeff; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011

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Tradability and the labor-market impact of immigration : theory and evidence from the U.S.

Burstein, Ariel T.; Hanson, Gordon H.; Tian, Lin; … - 2017

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The rise and fall of U.S. low-skilled immigration

Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen; McIntosh, Craig - 2017

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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Low-Skilled Immigration

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2017

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the Great Recession, however, U.S. borders have become a far less active place when it comes to the net arrival of foreign workers. The number of undocumented immigrants has...

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High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of Stem Occupations in U.S. Employment

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror … peaked around the year 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. STEM employment shares are just now approaching these …

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