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The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
Jones, Benjamin F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper presents a model where human capital differences - rather than technology differences - can explain several central phenomena in the world economy. The results follow from the educational choices of workers, who decide not just how long to train, but also how broadly. A "knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575247
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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration
Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration costs, the increase in international migration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828773
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of … workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of …. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest … achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Peri, Giovanni; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çaǧlar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
our simulations, accounting for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, and correcting for the quality of schooling and … database of bilateral stocks and net migration flows of immigrants and emigrants by education level for the years 1990 through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776836
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950885
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Labor-Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy
Scheve, Kenneth F.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
This paper uses an individual-level data set to analyze the determinants of individual preferences over immigration policy in the United States. In particular, we test for a link from individual skill levels to stated immigration-policy preferences. Different economic models make contrasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774768
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers … impact of the relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of U.S. workers. However, contrary to the findings of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778650