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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications
Ambrosini, William - 2011
migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127753
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123669
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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758423
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758439
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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2010
(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759515
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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Foged, Mette - 2013
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077946
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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022
In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test Borjas' negative-selection hypothesis that in poor...
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Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence
Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014
A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A rich literature has documented that this insight has profound implications for corporate governance because assessment generates incentives (good and bad), introduces assorted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055514
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121726
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The Adverse Effect of the Covid-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly severe...
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