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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226892
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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 analytics of the wage effect of immigration
Borjas, George J. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331872
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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 economic integration of immigrants in the United States: Lessons for policy
Borjas, George J. - 2003
The most important economic feature of immigration to the United States in the post- 1965 period has been a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279215
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269955
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The analytics of the wage effect of immigration
Borjas, George J. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224806
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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 Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
Borjas, George J. - 2013
It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of their American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091420
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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