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of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …
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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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In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor …-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the … U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth-year cohort display a …
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Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
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We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
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We use 1980 and 1990 Census data for 119 larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas to examine the effect of skill-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group...
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disaster in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and … international borders were open, making emigration a widespread phenomenon and a readily available option for disaster relief. We … migration. Using commune-level data on damage and annual emigration, we find that, despite massive destruction, there is no …
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innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local … estimate the key co-location and diaspora parameters; the net effect of innovator emigration is to harm domestic knowledge …'s most important inventions as measured by citations received. Thus, our findings imply that the optimal emigration level may …
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old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. I document that low wages, high … networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration ("West Germany'') and one with a low … networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant rate of emigration ("East Germany''). The model …
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In the presence of moving costs, individuals may remain in a region even when they expect to attain a higher standard of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on living standards could be positive or negative. This paper...
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