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The political economy of immigration enforcement : conflict and cooperation under federalism
Ciancio, Alberto; García Jimeno, Camilo - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020194
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484085
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305
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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990
Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458960
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283642
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Revisiting the labor demand curve : the wage effects of immigration and women's entry into the US labor force, 1960 - 2010
De Brauw, Alan; Russell, Joseph R. D. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460885
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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236576
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Immigrants and the U.S. wage distribution
Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2020
A large body of literature estimates the relative wage impacts of immigration on low- and high-skill natives, but it is …-form quantile treatment effects by constructing a ceteris paribus counterfactual wage distribution with lower immigration levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161534
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Immigrant communities and knowledge spillovers : Danish-Americans and the development of the dairy industry in the United States
Boberg-Fazlić, Nina; Sharp, Paul - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163340