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The Labor Market Consequences of Refugee Supply Shocks
Borjas, George J.; Monras, Joan - 2016
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559640
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The labor market consequences of refugee supply shocks
Borjas, George J.; Monras, Joan - 2016
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532579
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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2017
Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960633
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Immigration and economic growth
Borjas, George J. - In: Prospects for economic growth in the United States, (pp. 78-112). 2021
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Health, employment, and disability : implications from the undocumented population
Borjas, George J.; Slusky, David - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 8 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
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The wage impact of the Marielitos : a reappraisal
Borjas, George J. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 70 (2017) 5, pp. 1077-1110
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Job vacancies, the Beveridge Curve, and supply shocks : the frequency and content of help-wanted ads in pre- and post-Mariel Miami
Anastasopoulos, Jason; Borjas, George J.; Cook, Gavin G.; … - 2019
-wanted ads published in local newspapers in 51 metropolitan areas. We use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration … recovery afterwards. The Miami evidence is consistent with the observed relation between immigration and the HWI across all … metropolitan areas in the 1970- 2000 period: these spatial correlations suggest that more immigration reduces the number of job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101998
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The adverse effect of the COVID-19 labor market shock on immigrant employment
Borjas, George J.; Cassidy, Hugh - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021
, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501434
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The Labor Market Consequences of Refugee Supply Shocks
Borjas, George J. - 2016
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983008