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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Wealth in the United States rose and fell precipitously during the first decade of this century for all major ethnic groups, but the fluctuations in Hispanic wealth were especially extreme. We show that household characteristics and location can account for the Hispanic experience during the...
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accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …
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. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …
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greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration … over the 2008-2018 decade, we find evidence of intensified immigration enforcement suppressing Hispanics' willingness to …
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immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108344
migrants coming from relatively better educated communities. In addition, culture appears to play a large role, with East and …
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This article, utilizing U.S. Census data in 1980 and 1990, probes the relationship between immigration and urban sprawl … behaviors. Population growth caused by immigration is not likely the major causal factor to urban sprawl. The residential …
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