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Ethnic Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment : Evidence from Proposition 187

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

measuring the impacts of local support for California's Proposition 187, one of the first and most well-known ballot measures …

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Immigration and Inequality in the Next Generation

Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We estimate the causal impacts of immigration to U.S. cities on the intergenerational economic mobility of children of … U.S.-born parents. Immigration raises the educational attainment and earnings among individuals who grew up in poorer …. On net, immigration diminishes the link between parents' and their children's economic outcomes in the receiving …

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Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries : Lessons From U.S. Immigrants

Lagakos, David - 2016

How much does life-cycle human capital accumulation vary across countries? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying U.S. immigrants, who come from a wide variety of countries but work in a common labor market. We document that returns to potential experience among U.S. immigrants are...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2013

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - 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...

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne - 2011

Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...

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The Effect of Immigration on Productivity : Evidence from US States

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …

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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

Kerr, William - 2009

The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation, with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...

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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2009

arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …

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