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Evidence suggests that the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) had almost no effect on earnings and had a small … negative effect on manufacturing employment. Theory suggests that a change in trade policy may affect skilled and less …
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This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …
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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 …
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lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
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Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …
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This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331449
This paper proposes a method for summarizing the pace of advancement of the foreign-born population in a given period. The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after...
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Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies … have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects … of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from …
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Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies … have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects … of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985021
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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