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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664509
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955007
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950520
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005874
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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653220
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744518