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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 States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252329
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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Meyer, Bruce D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575548
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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
States aid business and technology exchanges with their home countries, but the overall effect that the migration has on the … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226
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The Labor Market Effects of Reducing the Number of Illegal Immigrants
Peri, Giovanni; Chassamboulli, Andri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212282
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most … important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 … census manuscripts to address three interconnected questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using matched employer-employee data at the establishment level, we measure the importance of these network effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039682
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The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
physically subdivided cities strongly predicts the level of segregation that ensued after the Great Migration of African …-Americans to northern and western cities in the 20th century. At the start of the Great Migration, though, track configurations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580538
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778918