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highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like …
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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country where they were born. Among...
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The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability … suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity … positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different …
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, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …-run effect ranging from zero for the US to -0.8 percent in the UK. Third, over the period 1990-2000, immigration generally …
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address these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category … of New Zealand?s immigration policy. They survey applicants to the 2002-05 ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for the … immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument to address the …
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This study provides empirical evidence that trade increases on-the-job human capital accumulation by estimating the effect of home country openness on estimated returns to home country experience of U.S. immigrants. The positive effect of trade on on-the-job human capital accumulation remains...
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of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on average each year. This paper investigates whether the country will be able to maintain such high levels of growth going forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the...
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