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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 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210107
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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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How Good are Proxies for Legal Status? : Evidence from the Legalization of Two Million Mexicans
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act …
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210098
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Have R&D spillovers changed?
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John; Lucking, Brian - 2018
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 Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
Bernstein, Shai; Diamond, Rebecca; Jiranaphawiboon, Abhisit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of more than 230 million of...
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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program
Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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