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Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …
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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 …
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The Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913) was among the largest migration episodes in history. During this period, the United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration while accounting for migrant selection across households...
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increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
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immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
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, facing migration from the rest of the world.Each host country in a competitive regime balances on the margin these gains and …
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People flows refers to the movement of people across international borders in the form of immigration, international … student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of …, the dispersion of pay for similarly skilled workers around the world exceeds the dispersion of the prices of goods and …
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We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An …
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Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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