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natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre … experiencing significant low-skilled immigration attracted natives who moved for working purposes. However, these locations saw … small to no impact on local housing prices. These facts together suggest that immigration attracted natives who value labor …
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immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
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This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....
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productivity growth as well as local exposures to global shocks--technology, trade, immigration, and population aging--predict the …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration …
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We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
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migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education … distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are …
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