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The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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Immigrant enclaves offer valuable ethnic amenities but may delay assimilation. We study enclave formation in the Age of Mass Migration by using the centralized location decisions for "ethnic" Catholic churches. After a church opening, same-ethnicity residents of chosen neighborhoods experienced...
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research teams participated in an experiment. After being surveyed about their position on immigration policy, they used the … same data to answer the same well-defined empirical question: Does immigration affect the level of public support for … the measured impact ranging from strongly negative to strongly positive. We find that research teams composed of pro-immigration …
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This paper revisits the results of Bloom, Schankerman, and Van Reenen (2013) examining the impact of R&D on the performance of US firms, especially through spillovers. We extend their analysis to include an additional 15 years of data through 2015, and update the measures of firms' interactions...
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the labor market impact of immigration, and of the "stylized fact" that immigration might not have much impact on the wage …
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earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the …
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In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be …, can do neither of these. This suggests quite different political coalitions may organize around trade and immigration. In … strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. We then apply this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade …
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This paper consists of three reports on stochastic forecasting for Social Security, on infinite horizons, immigration …, and structural time series models. 1) In our preferred stochastic immigration forecast, total net immigration drops from …% probability bounds of 800,000 to 1.8 million at the century's end. Adding stochastic immigration makes little difference to the …
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This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration in elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their peers, we exploit random...
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compare the capital flows that occur without immigration to the capital inflows that would occur with immigration of 400 …,000 people annually. With the larger labor force from immigration and the larger induced capital accumulation, output will be 22 …
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