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The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2005

New longitudinal data on individuals linked across nineteenth century U.S. censuses document the geographic and occupational mobility of more than 75,000 Americans from the 1850s to the 1920s. Together with longitudinal data for more recent years, these data make possible for the first time...

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Pattern in Regional Labor Market Adjustment : The United States vs. Japan

Montgomery, Edward B. - 2022

In this paper I examine regional labor market behavior in the United States and Japan. In contrast with the picture at the aggregate level, Japanese labor markets at the prefectural (regional) level appear to exhibit substantially more persistence than state level labor markets in the United...

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Taken by Storm : Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration

Mahajan, Parag - 2017

measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents (“green card …

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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Low-Skilled Immigration

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2017

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …

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The Political Impact of Immigration : Evidence from the United States

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2018

In this paper we study the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote for the Republican Party by analyzing …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

Anti-immigrant forces almost succeeded in passing restrictive legislation in 1897, but their plan did not ultimately materialize for another twenty years. During that time 17 million Europeans from among the poorest nations came to the United States. This paper explores the economic and...

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The Wages and Language Skills of U.S. Immigrants

Carliner, Geoffrey - 2021

This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants from some regions earned much more than natives, while others, especially from Mexico, earned much less. This paper also finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S....

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Generational Accounting and Immigration in the United States

Auerbach, Alan J.; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021

In recent years, the renewed strength of immigration to the United States has sparked a debate about the economic … effects of immigration. A central issue in this debate has been the fiscal impact of immigrants. Most research in this area … fiscal responsibility' is followed, whether there is a fiscal gain from immigration depends on the extent to which government …

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne - 2011

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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