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Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are … natural randomization). The results suggest that output tradability, technology, and human capital together explain much less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063809
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Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Clemens, Michael A. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 198-202
two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are … natural randomization). The results suggest that output tradability, technology, and human capital together explain much less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659344
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Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile Phones on Migration in Niger
Aker, Jenny C.; Clemens, Michael A.; Ksoll, Christopher - 2011
phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Overall, our preliminary results suggest that access to this technology … survey period. Rather we posit that they are largely explained by the effectiveness of mobile phones as a search technology … results suggest that simple and cheap information technology can be harnessed to affect labor mobility among rural populations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305635
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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
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation which is rarely directly measured even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653220
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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood; Postel, … - 2017
production technology, and test it by collecting novel archival data on the bracero program that allow us to measure state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653240
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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers: Evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532909
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modelling address bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533026
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Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533090
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Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border
Clemens, Michael A. - 2024
Legal and illegal markets often coexist. In theory, marginal legalization can either substitute for the remaining parallel market, or complement it via scale effects. I study migrants crossing without prior authorization at the US southwest border, where large-scale unlawful crossing coexists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533869
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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479248