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More hands, more power? : estimating the impact of immigration on output and technology choices using early 20th century US agriculture
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; González-Velosa, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746056
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Immigration, endogenous skill bias of technological change, and welfare analysis
Senel, Gonca - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 26 (2022) 5, pp. 1264-1301
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270235
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Immigration and the U.S. labor market : a look ahead
Holzer, Harry J. - 2020
participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat … toward more-skilled and labor-market-driven migrants. These reforms should occur within the broader context of "comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153549
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Culture, labor supply, and fertility across immigrant generations in the United States
Muchomba, Felix M.; Jiang, Nan; Kaushal, Neeraj - In: Feminist economics 26 (2020) 1, pp. 154-178
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Welfare reform and immigrants : does the five-year ban matter?
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - In: Immigration : trends, consequences and prospects for …, (pp. 311-347). 2008
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275