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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 … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …
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accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any …
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market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …
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the labor market impact of immigration, and of the “stylized fact” that immigration might not have much impact on the wage …
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This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U … most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers within a decade. These two facts imply a positive and … significant effect of the 1990-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short run and in the …
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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage …-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher out-migration rates … immigration on wages in a local labor market by 40 to 60 percent, depending on whether the labor market is defined at the state or …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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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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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … increase existing estimates of the wage impact 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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