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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124352
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011
whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123669
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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means
Eichengreen, Barry; Ruehl, Christof - 2021
, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225811
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Property Rights and Finance
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213059
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Immigration and Product Diversity
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2010
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757528
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758020
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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2010
composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy …. Being net contributors to the welfare state, skilled migrants can help finance a more generous welfare-state system; thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758239
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's levels of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758307
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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
wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … likely to generate upward biases in these estimates too. Native wage effects disappear and less-skilled employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758439