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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830012
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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
between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration … costs, the increase in international migration has involved mainly highly educated workers. During the same period … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …
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
responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U ….S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227919
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234896
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201885
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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation, with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614944
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Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625928
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
Peri, Giovanni; Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-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 … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927012
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
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