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effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group so as to best match Miami's labor market features before...
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state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
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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. …
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