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In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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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 two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the … U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth-year cohort display a …
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We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
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Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
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of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …
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old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. I document that low wages, high … networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration (quot;West Germany'') and one with a low … networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant rate of emigration (quot;East Germany''). The …
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The Latin countries -- Italy, Portugal and Spain -- were industrial late-comers and only experienced mass emigration … purchasing-power-parity adjusted real wages) for twelve European countries to find that Latin emigration behavior was no …
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In the presence of moving costs, individuals may remain in a region even when they expect to attain a higher standard of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on living standards could be positive or negative. This paper...
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innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local … estimate the key co-location and diaspora parameters; the net effect of innovator emigration is to harm domestic knowledge …'s most important inventions as measured by citations received. Thus, our findings imply that the optimal emigration level may …
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areas, however, may be deprived of talent through emigration, which may harm dynamism and delay political, and economic …, change. A significant episode of emigration took place between 2010 and 2014 from Italy following the deep economic recession …, city mayors and local vote, we analyze whether emigration reduced political change. The sudden emigration wave interacted …
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