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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 …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
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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 - 2022
(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429412
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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 …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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
intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in …' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653240
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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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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/10012882621
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Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy : evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in …' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607505
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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/10012820735
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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 …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965000