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The Fertility of Immigrant Women : Evidence from High Fertility Source Countries
Blau, Francine D. - 2021
Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...
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Immigration : America's Nineteenth Century "Law and Order Problem"?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration have focused on violent crime in cities and have relied on data with serious limitations regarding nativity information. We analyze administrative data from Pennsylvania prisons,...
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Blau, Francine D. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098471
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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 2013
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty Through Labor Market Competition
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
In this paper I first analyze the wage effects of immigrants on native workers in the US economy and its top immigrant-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families. The goal is to establish whether the...
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Assessing Inherent Model Bias : An Application to Native Displacement in Response to Immigration
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
There is a long-standing debate among academics about the effect of immigration on native internal migration decisions. If immigrants displace natives this may indicate a direct cost of immigration in the form of decreased employment opportunity for native workers. Moreover, displacement would...
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Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017
This paper builds on the analysis in Akcigit et al. (2017) by using US patent and Census data to examine macro and micro-level aspects of the relationship between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors...
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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2010
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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