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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....
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We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on … natives. We find that in the considered period immigration did not produce significant migratory response or loss of jobs of …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual … of adjustment of physical capital we show that most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers already …-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short and in the long run. This positive average effect …
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change in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the …
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in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the relative …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in the US has largely focused on how influxes of foreign … effect of immigration within the market for highly-educated labor. We use O*NET data on job characteristics to assess whether …
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