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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455556
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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between the size of interest groups in terms of voter representation and the interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share of an interest group and its contributions to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464972
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616568
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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456189
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Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying : The Rise of Private Health Insurance In the United States
Alsan, Marcella; Neberai, Yousra; Ye, Xingyou - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study examines the rise of private health insurance in the United States in the post- World War II era. We investigate the role of the American Medical Association (AMA) which financed a campaign against National Health Insurance that was directed by the country's first political public...
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Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans
Gresenz, Carole Roan - 2007
This research explores social networks and their relationship to access to health care among adult Mexican … are interacted with individual-level measures of acculturation. For insured Mexican-American immigrants, living in an area … these characteristics of the local population on access to care for U.S. born Mexican-Americans, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465188
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The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
Bernstein, Shai; Diamond, Rebecca; Jiranaphawiboon, Abhisit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of more than 230 million of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477290
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Market Access and Migration : Evidence from the Panama Canal Opening during the First Great Migration
Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the influence of transportation infrastructure on migration decisions in the context of the Great Migration in the United States. Focusing on the opening of the Panama Canal in 1920, we isolate the effect of improved economic opportunities from reduced migration costs. Using...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479519
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
Collins, William J. - 2018
The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480938