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Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents
Bivins, Laura L. - 2001
This paper compares the effects of migration restrictions using licenses which are freely traded in a competitive labor market to those that occur when licenses are allocated to firms who are not permitted to trade them. There is reason to expect that a policy of making licenses non-transferable...
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Revisiting the Commodity Curse : A Financial Perspective
Alberola, Enrique - 2017
effect that stimulates demand and has long-run implications on the sectoral allocation of labour. If dynamic productivity …
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Immigration Lottery Design : Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
Pathak, Parag A. - 2020
-degree applicants. Since then, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has used visa allocation rules that comply with this …, USCIS tweaked its H-1B visa allocation rule in 2019. While remaining in compliance with the legislation set forth in 2005 … characterize all visa allocation rules that comply with the 2005 legislation and use this framework to analyze the rules that have …
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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy : Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
Abramitzky, Ran - 2019
In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...
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The Economic Effect of Immigration Policies : Analyzing and Simulating the U.S. Case
Chassamboulli, Andri - 2018
In this paper we analyze the economic effects of different immigration policies using a model that incorporates economic and policy features crucial to understanding the migrant flows into the US. We differentiate among the most relevant channels of immigration to the US: family-based,...
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Fear and the Safety Net : Evidence from Secure Communities
Alsan, Marcella - 2018
This paper explores the impact of fear on the incomplete take-up of safety net programs in the United States. We exploit changes in deportation fear due to the roll-out and intensity of Secure Communities (SC), an immigration enforcement program that empowers the federal government to check the...
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Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States
Richter, Susan M. - 2005
Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for differential effects of policy changes on male and female migration. We find that both IRCA and NAFTA...
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily - 2014
Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. We conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of...
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms : Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk - 2014
We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm's outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
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Open Borders
Kennan, John - 2012
There is a large body of evidence indicating that cross-country differences in income levels are associated with differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead to large efficiency losses. The paper quantifies...
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