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Chapter 22. The Labor Market Integration and Impacts of US Immigrants

Cadena, Brian C.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1197-1259). 2015

policy and immigrant flows. We then evaluate the concern by discussing evidence for the United States on three relevant …

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Immigration and business dynamics : evidence from U.S. firms

Mahajan, Parag - 2022

establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U … general equilibrium model proposes a mechanism that ties immigrant workers to high-productivity firms and shows how accounting … for changes to the employer distribution can yield substantially larger estimates of immigrant-generated economic surplus …

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Migrants from a different shore : earnings and economic assimilation of immigrants from China in the United States

Fang, Tony; Hsu, Mei; Lin, Carl - 2024

portion of the earnings advantage held by Chinese immigrants, compared to other immigrant groups and U.S.-born workers over …

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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants : A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2021

This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed countries. Our approach emphasizes the key roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970 - 1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2002

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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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Culture and entrepreneurship? : African American and immigrant self-employment in the United States

Bogan, Vicki; Darity, William A. <Jr.> - In: The journal of socio-economics 37 (2008) 5, pp. 1999-2019

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