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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks

Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...

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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...

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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : synthetic control method meets the Mariel Boatlift

Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2017

departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2006

high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration's impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …

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