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natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian labor markets that internationally educated immigrant...
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questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … source of depression of wages for African-Americans stems not just from immigration. In fact, in some ways, occupation … clustering and specialization of Mexican immigrants mitigates impact of immigration on African-Americans on a whole range of low …
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immigrants than for natives, while this differential decays towards zero as the immigration share increases. This evidence …
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the … natives in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that immigration has considerably affected the …
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This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental variable quantile regression approach. The impact is on average roughly 17.2% but varies substantially across the earning distribution. The return to destination language...
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Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of … significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income, ideology, and other socio …, but cannot entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …
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This paper investigates whether immigration shocks have a causal effect on native fertility patterns. It uses a natural … experiment, exploiting the large, unexpected and localised immigration of Cuban nationals to the Miami area in the USA in 1980 to … difference-in-differences analysis, the results from this study indicate that the immigration shock had an overall negative …
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