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What Does Global Expansion of Higher Education Mean for the Us?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2009
in the world's university students and graduates. It shows that the proportion of young persons who go to college has … position in science and technology. International students make up roughly half of university graduate immigrants to the US …, which makes policies toward those students a key determinant in the country's success in attracting immigrant talent …
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Foreign and Native Skilled Workers : What Can We Learn from H-1b Lotteries?
Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In April of 2007 and 2008, the U.S. randomly allocated 65,000 H-1B temporary work permits to foreign-born skilled workers. About 88,000 requests for computer-related H-1B permits were declined in each of those two years. This paper exploits random H-1B variation across U.S. cities to analyze how...
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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Dostie, Benoit; Li, Jiang; Card, David; Parent, Daniel - 2022
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms’ employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and Us Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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The Economic Progress of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2021
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of the economic progress experienced by immigrants in the U.S. labor market. The theoretical framework illustrates that the relationship between the entry wage of immigrants and the subsequent rate of wage growth depends on the technology of...
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Labor Mobility and Fiscal Coordination
Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - 2021
Using a human capital based growth model, we show the essential role of labor mobility and cross-country tax harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers cum labor mobility are the driving forces behind the...
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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market : Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
Naidu, Suresh - 2014
In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...
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Feasible Globalizations
Rodrik, Dani - 2021
The nation-state system, democratic politics, and full economic integration are mutually incompatible. Of the three, at most two can be had together. The Bretton Woods/GATT regime was successful because its architects subjugated international economic integration to the needs and demands of...
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2014
globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
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Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes : How to Protect Low-Income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2022
This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....
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