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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …

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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...

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Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers

Jardim, Ekaterina S.; Long, Mark C.; Plotnick, Robert D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The boundary discontinuity method of causal inference may yield misleading results if a policy's impacts do not stop at the border of the implementing jurisdiction. We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the...

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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 on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions : A Revealed-Preference Approach

Porcher, Charly; Morales, Eduardo; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the role of information frictions in migration. We develop novel moment inequalities to estimate worker … preferences while allowing for unobserved worker-specific information sets, migration costs, and location-specific amenities and … prices. Using data on internal migration in Brazil, we find that common estimation procedures underestimate the importance of …

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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks

Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...

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Closing the Gates : Assessing Impacts of the Immigration Act of 1917

Ganguli, Ina; Withrow, Jennifer R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

'skill-based' immigration policy in an attempt to limit migration. We assess whether the Immigration Act had any measurable … into migration to the U.S. from Europe through Ellis Island, reducing migration from low literacy countries by 70 percent …

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How Good are Proxies for Legal Status? : Evidence from the Legalization of Two Million Mexicans

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan; Zhang, Chengguo - 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 of 1986 (IRCA). We find that occupation and program use variables in a prominent proxy for legal status poorly detect this event. A decade after legalization, the share of...

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