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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U.S. using nationally representative longitudinal datasets covering 1996-2008. Models with person fixed effects show that on average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any...
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using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration …
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This paper charts the growth and development of the Latino population of the northeastern U.S. from 1970 to 2015. The relatively small population dominated by Puerto Ricans and concentrated in New York and a few other cities has evolved into a large, diverse, and more geographically dispersed...
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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data and historical experience. Of course, immigration - like anything else - is not without costs, which are … disproportionately borne by the least educated. A plan to increase employment-based immigration as a way to spur economic growth could be … paired with new programs to help low-skilled U.S. natives and earlier immigrants so that the benefits of immigration are …
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gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In … traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
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gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In … traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199826
well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled …
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