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Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities
Albouy, David; Leibovici, Fernando; Warman, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada's metropolitan areas. These are based off of the estimated willingness-to-pay of heterogeneous households and firms to locate in various cities, which differ in their wage levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271435
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Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability
Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Wage evidence suggests that immigrant workers are imperfectly substitutable for native-born workers with similar education and experience. Using U.S. Censuses and recent American Community Survey data, I ask to what extent differences in language skills drive this. I find they are important. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368128
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Demand Shifts, Population Adjustments, and Labor Market Outcomes during the 1980s
Bound, John; Holzer, Harry J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
employment and earnings of various demographic groups during the 1980s. Results show that, although earnings and employment … impacts on the earnings and employment of these demographic groups. We also find that popu- lation shifts across areas … importantly to relatively greater deterioration of employment and earnings of these groups in declining areas during the 1980s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714667
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Youth Labor Markets in the U.S.: Shopping Around vs. Staying Put
Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
The need for school-to-work programs or other means of increasing early job market stability is predicated on the view that the chaotic' nature of youth labor markets in the U.S. is costly because workers drift from one job to another without developing skills, behavior, or other characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720095
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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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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
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/10005830132
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 percent labor supply shift is associated with a 3 to 4...
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of product demand, the rate at which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774851
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The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses
Butcher, Kristin F.; DiNardo, John Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis … vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777389