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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation
Mundra, Kusum - 2012
varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … in magnitude to the immigrant effect on trade estimated in the literature. However, this does not capture the full extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679502
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Immigration and trade creation for the US: The role of immigrant occupation
Mundra, Kusum - 2012
varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … in magnitude to the immigrant effect on trade estimated in the literature. However, this does not capture the full extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291342
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162
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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates
Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024
This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454676
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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468235
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Cultural assimilation during the age of mass migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575920
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Cultural assimilation during the age of mass migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518128
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German-Jewish emigres and US invention
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra; Waldinger, Fabian - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339673
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Law-Abiding Immigrants : The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We combine full-count Census data (1850-1940) with Census/ACS samples (1950-2020) to provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322827
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Law-abiding immigrants: the incarceration gap between immigrants and the US-born, 1850-2020
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317457