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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …
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Immigrants in Rome or Paris are more visible to the public eye than the Italian or French engineers in Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high-income countries. This paper argues that such public fears,...
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group so as to best match Miami's labor market features before...
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