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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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How the Other Half Died : Immigration and Mortality in US Cities

Ager, Philipp - 2020

curtailing immigration. We capture the "missing immigrants" induced by the quotas to estimate the effect of immigration on …

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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …

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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...

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Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920 : Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

Kim, Sukkoo - 2007

indicate that immigration not only contributed to the growth and spread of factories but it also contributed to the growth of …

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How do U.S. Visa Policies Affect Unauthorized Immigration?

Kovak, Brian K. - 2020

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration …. This policy aims to serve as an additional deterrent to unauthorized immigration, but may be ineffective given that most … individuals are ineffective at current rates of legal immigration, but that increased legalization rates would amplify the …

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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...

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Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration

Pérez, Santiago - 2019

I study the selection and economic outcomes of Italians in Argentina and the US, the two largest destinations during the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is inconclusive on whether this was due to differences in...

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

Collins, William J. - 2019

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 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …

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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Clark, Ximena - 2002

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …

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