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workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …
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This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants from some regions earned much more than natives, while others, especially from Mexico, earned much less. This paper also finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S....
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assimilation effect that suggests that immigrants make up for relatively low entry wages, although the wage catch-up is not … skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of …
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earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the …
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This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early …
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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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We make use of a new data source - matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida - to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
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capital accumulation. To distinguish between theories, we use new data on the characteristics of immigrants and non-migrants …
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labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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