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Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …
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immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the receiving … rapidly and vigorously. The inflow of immigrants does not seem to reduce capital intensity nor total factor productivity in …
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or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …
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productivity growth in the U.S. In this paper we identify STEM workers in the U.S. and we look at the effect of their growth on the … estimates imply that STEM workers contributed significantly to total factor productivity growth in the U.S. and across cities …
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show that the main effect of migration operates through total factor productivity but not through institutional quality …
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be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firmes use immigrants. Allowing … analyze the impact of an increase in local supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and productivity. Using micro … department (location) increases the productivity of firms in that department. We also find that this effect is significantly …
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We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
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productivity. …
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