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Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration …
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Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
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: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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Research on the labor market impact of immigration typically relies on a single-good model of production with separable … market impact of immigration. A reasonable level of capital-skill complementarity, for which there is considerable support … outside research on immigration, alone reduces the relative wage impact of immigration by 40 percent compared to simulations …
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arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration … that, while average entry wages fell again after 2000, correcting for simple changes in the composition of new immigrants …, the unexplained rise in entry wages has persisted …
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-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international …Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This … between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in …
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changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the … dynamically respond to changes in market size. The dynamic response of firms amplifies changes in relative wages as labor demand …
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We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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