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Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Driving Towards Integration : Early Childhood Education Implications of Extending Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Deza, Monica; Kostandini, Genti - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effect of granting access to driver licenses to undocumented immigrants on their offspring's access to early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants leads to a 6% increase in ECE...

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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience

Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean … natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre …-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …

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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 2017

Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...

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How do U.S. Visa Policies Affect Unauthorized Immigration?

Kovak, Brian K. - 2020

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration …. This policy aims to serve as an additional deterrent to unauthorized immigration, but may be ineffective given that most … individuals are ineffective at current rates of legal immigration, but that increased legalization rates would amplify the …

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