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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …
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Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …
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We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …
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In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …
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This paper examines the effect of ethnic enclaves on economic outcomes of Norwegian immigrants in 1910 and 1920, the later part of the Age of Mass Migration. Using different identification strategies, including county fixed effects and an instrumental variables strategy based on chain migration,...
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baseline views that respondents have of immigrants, simply making them think about immigration before asking questions about …, suggesting that when it comes to immigration, salience and narratives shape people's views more deeply than hard facts …
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Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...
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In this chapter, we document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S....
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