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studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context …The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …
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rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities … to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind … immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor …
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are more likely to have them. Consistent with the model, we find that higher population U.S. states have more pages of …. Overall, the data show that population is an empirically important determinant of regulation …
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We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...
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In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … 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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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
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international labor migration more positively, while they generally remain unaware of the intervention. An online experiment with …
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Poverty reduction programs modeled on BRAC's graduation approach build up both tangible productive assets and intangible psychosocial assets such as self-confidence and the aspiration for upward mobility. The goal of this paper is to better understand how psychosocial factors operate and shape...
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