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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
employment losses that occurred during Great Recession, and our results confirm the standard finding that high …-skilled populations are quite geographically responsive to employment opportunities while low-skilled populations are much less so … Mexican-born workforce reduced the incidence of local demand shocks on low-skilled natives' employment outcomes by roughly 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234896
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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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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 …
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 … use Census of Population microdata to examine if black self-employment levels are lower in labor markets which have a ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …
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
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226
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Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth
Bloom, David; canning, david; Fink, Günther - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The share of the population aged 60 and over is projected to increase in nearly every country in the world during 2005-2050. Population ageing will tend to lower both labor-force participation and savings rates, thereby raising concerns about a future slowing of economic growth. Our calculations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805410
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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
were the migrants' gains? Did migration narrow the racial gap in economic status? We find evidence of positive selection …, but the migrants' gains were large. A substantial amount of black-white convergence in this period is attributable to …
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
At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and population characteristics -- particularly for black residents -- but it is widely recognized that this correlation may not be causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580538