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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration

Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...

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Do immigrants displace native workers? Evidence from matched panel data

Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José - 2012

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development … assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the USA with Haitian workers differs … roughly equally between Haiti and the USA; these benefits are very large, including raising the value of Haitian workers …

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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...

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Structural change out of agriculture: labor push versus labor pull

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Poschke, Markus - 2009

The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...

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Mobilization against AIDS: Beobachtungen von einer Reise im Herbst 1985

Paul, Gerd - In: Eine Stadt lebt mit AIDS: Hilfe und Selbsthilfe in San …, (pp. 10-27). 1986

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[Rezension] Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decisions in a toxic environment. Berkeley [u.a.]: California University Press, 1989

Dierkes, Meinolf - In: Organization studies: An international … 12 (1991) 2, pp. 325-326

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Immigrant assimilation, trust and social capital

Cox, James C.; Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2010

Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...

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The impact of amnesty on labor market outcomes: A panel study using the legalized population survey

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2011

This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1987-1992, a...

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Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return

Henderson, Daniel J.; Polachek, Solomon; Wang, Le - 2011

This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...

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