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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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The effects of tougher enforcement on the job prospects of recent Latin American immigrants
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 28 (2009) 2, pp. 239-257
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
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Qualifying Ricardian equivalence : immigration
Weber, Ernst Juerg - 1989
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Immigration policy and birth weight : positive externalities in Italian law
Salmasi, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - In: Journal of health economics 43 (2015), pp. 128-139
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - In: Regional science & urban economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 817-828
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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Immigration and economic growth
Borjas, George J. - In: Prospects for economic growth in the United States, (pp. 78-112). 2021
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Rising immigration and falling native-born home ownership : a spatial econometric analysis for New Zealand
Li, Chao; Gibson, John K.; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2021
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