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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on … wages may arise. -- Immigration ; Wages ; Ireland …

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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan - 2009

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On the macroeconomic effects of immigration : a VAR analysis for the US

Weiske, Sebastian - 2019

This paper estimates the quarterly flow of migrants to the US working age population using data based on the Current … Population Survey (CPS). The dynamic responses to immigration shocks are estimated in a vector autoregression. Immigration shocks …, as well as technology shocks are identified through long-run restrictions. The responses to immigration shocks are …

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How do immigrants spend their time? : the process of assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation – what immigrants do with...

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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...

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Essays on the heterogeneity of immigrant groups in the United States : testable implications using human capital theory

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2002

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Birthplace diversity and economic growth : evidence from the US states in the post-World War II period

Docquier, Frédéric; Turati, Riccardo; Valette, Jérôme; … - 2018

This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with endogeneity issues and to conduct a large set of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity...

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Birthplace diversity and economic growth : evidence from the US states in the Post-World War II period

Docquier, Frédéric; Turati, Riccardo; Valette, Jérôme; … - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 2, pp. 321-354

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