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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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Immigration and economic growth

Borjas, George J. - In: Prospects for economic growth in the United States, (pp. 78-112). 2021

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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 …

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The labor supply of undocumented immigrants

Borjas, George J. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 46 (2017), pp. 1-13

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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs

Borjas, George J. - 1995

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...

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