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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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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Clark, Ximena - 2002

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a system that emphasized family reunification. Some...

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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1991

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the...

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Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Startups

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2020

migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy …

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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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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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The Refugee Advantage : English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Catron, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however …, refugees arrived without formal selection processes or federal support. We examine the integration of historical refugees using … a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...

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How the Other Half Died : Immigration and Mortality in US Cities

Ager, Philipp - 2020

Fears of immigrants as a threat to public health have a long and sordid history. At the turn of the 20th century, when millions of immigrants crowded into dense American cities, contemporaries blamed the high urban mortality penalty on the newest arrivals. Nativist sentiments eventually led to...

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