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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration …
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distribution. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. We develop a simple …
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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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education overseas is that the US has come to rely extensively on the immigration of highly educated persons to maintain a lead …
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The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … live in institutional settings. Using a shift-share instrument to identify exogenous variation in immigration, we find that … percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels …
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Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...
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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 … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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