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suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment … to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading …
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find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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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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, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …
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, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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enforceability primarily affects wages through its effect on workers' outside options; moreover, workers facing high enforceability …
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We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...
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