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natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …
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workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … between 1960 and 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants …
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previous literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of U.S.-born workers. We show … evidence of this positive effect by estimating the impact of immigration on both average wages and housing values across U …Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...
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immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …
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Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
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outcomes of the four race/sex groups that we consider. Our estimates of the effect of immigration on the wages of less …This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a … simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between …
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earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the … conditions because of large-scale immigration …
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