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The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S

Long, Joe; Medici, Carlo; Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the economic consequences of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned immigration from …

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How do U.S. Visa Policies Affect Unauthorized Immigration?

Kovak, Brian K. - 2020

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration …. This policy aims to serve as an additional deterrent to unauthorized immigration, but may be ineffective given that most … individuals are ineffective at current rates of legal immigration, but that increased legalization rates would amplify the …

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The Effect of Childcare Access on Women's Careers and Firm Performance

Simintzi, Elena; Xu, Sheng-Jun; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the effects of government-subsidized childcare on women's careers and firm outcomes using linked tax filing … women's career progression and the allocation of human capital in the labor market …

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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...

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Employee Ownership, Employment, and Work-from-Home in the Covid-19 Shock to the US Job Market

Xu, Huanan; Blasi, Joseph R.; Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

To what extent, if at all, did employee-owned (EO) firms maintain jobs for workers compared to non-EO firms in the spring 2020 Covid-19 shock to the US economy? Did EO firms shift jobs from workplaces to work-from-home locations in the pandemic more or less than other firms? This paper uses a...

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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...

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Taxation and Household Decisions : an Intertemporal Analysis

Bronson, Mary Ann; Haanwinckel, Daniel; Mazzocco, Maurizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How do different income taxation systems affect household decisions and welfare? We answer this question by first documenting the strong labor supply disincentives for secondary earners of the U.S. tax system and by using variations from the Bush Tax Cuts to assess their effects on...

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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy : Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

Abramitzky, Ran - 2019

In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...

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Driving Towards Integration : Early Childhood Education Implications of Extending Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Deza, Monica; Kostandini, Genti - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effect of granting access to driver licenses to undocumented immigrants on their offspring's access to early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants leads to a 6% increase in ECE...

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