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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from Daca
Kuka, Elira - 2018
This paper studies human capital responses to the availability of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary work authorization and deferral from deportation for undocumented, high-school-educated youth. We use a sample of young adults that migrated to...
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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or on the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2014
institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …
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Migration and Fiscal Externality : Us vs. Europe
Razin, Assaf - 2022
The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective skill-based migration policy in the US compared to the European Union. Policy coordination among states within the federal system on migration, taxes, and social benefits among...
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Hendren, Nathaniel; Sprung-Keyser, Benjamin - 2021
We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to...
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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758151
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Immigration and the Survival of Social Security : A Political Economy Model
Sand, Edith - 2010
In the political debate people express the idea that immigrants are good because they can help pay for the old. The paper explores this idea in a dynamic political-economy setup. For this purpose we develop an OLG political economy model of social security and migration. We characterize sub-game...
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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...
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Immigration Lottery Design : Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1b Reforms
Pathak, Parag A. - 2020
In 2005, the U.S. Congress legislated that the H-1B visa program create 20,000 annual slots reserved for advanced-degree applicants. Since then, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has used visa allocation rules that comply with this legislation. Following a directive in the April...
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Do Immigrants Delay Retirement and Social Security Claiming?
Lopez, Mary - 2019
As the share of older immigrants residing in the U.S. begins to rise, it is important to understand how immigrants' retirement behavior and security compare to that of natives. This question has implications for the impact of immigration on government finances and for the retirement security of...
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Deterring Illegal Entry : Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...
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