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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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Motivated by the unique experience of Israel of a supply-side shock of skilled migration, and the concurrent rise in disposable income inequality, this paper develops a model which can explain the mechanism through which a supply-side shock of skilled migration can reshape the political-economy...
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We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
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We empirically analyze the impact of immigration to the U.S. on the share of votes to the Republicans and Democrats … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share … House - works through two main channels. The impact of immigration on Republican votes in the House is negative when the …
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How much does life-cycle human capital accumulation vary across countries? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying U.S. immigrants, who come from a wide variety of countries but work in a common labor market. We document that returns to potential experience among U.S. immigrants are...
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, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …
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market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …
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accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any …
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immigration-induced skill mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … allowed the U.S. economy to absorb the large wave of less-skilled immigration with a modest decline in less-skilled relative …
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