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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2009
distribution. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. We develop a simple …
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The Changing Labor Market Position of Canadian Immigrants
Bloom, David E. - 1994
This paper uses pooled 1971, 1981, and 1986 Canadian census data to evaluate the extent to which (1) the earnings of …
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1991
Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475320
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
geographic areas. We consider the case of Canada, document its impressive experience with import variety growth in the period …
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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program
Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the introduction of Canada's Start-up Visa Program in 2013. We demonstrate that … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … show that Asian immigrants (who have a higher representation in Canada than in the U.S.) are disproportionately more likely …
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Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K
Milligan, Kevin - 2003
schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to address the possibility that unobservable characteristics of citizens …
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The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States : Recent Trends and Their Determinants
Jasso, Guillermina - 1998
The objective of this paper is to describe and understand the determinants of changes in the number and quality of new legal immigrants to the United States over the last 25 years. Our main interest is in understanding the behavioral response of potential immigrants to changes in the U.S....
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Global Collaborative Patents
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2015
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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