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The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks

Caballero, Maria Ésther; Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …

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Bound by Ancestors : Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Park, Ziho - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...

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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1986

Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...

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Opening the Door : Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020

We examine how the large, one-time legalization authorized by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has affected the scale and character of immigration to the U.S. since the late 1980s. Exploiting cross-country variation in the magnitude of the legalization shock, we find that each IRCA...

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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns

Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...

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Immigration : America's nineteenth century "law and order problem"?

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration have focused on violent crime in cities and have relied on data with serious limitations regarding nativity information. We analyze administrative data from Pennsylvania prisons,...

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