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Education and Self-Employment : South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita - 2014

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Northern Triangle Undocumented Migration to the United States

Carare, Alina; Koh, Catherine; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - 2023

Undocumented migration from the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the United States has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, accelerating at times. The paper investigates what factors could explain this fact, by estimating an investment decision...

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The decline in labour mobility in the United States : insights from new administrative data

Azzopardi, Damien; Fareed, Fozan; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source covering almost all workers and job flows....

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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Stayers and returners : educational self-selection among US immigrants and returning migrants

Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto - 2013

evidence of selection trends is found. -- immigration ; return migration ; self-selection ; education …

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This job is "getting old" : measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect

Razîn, Assaf; Sand, Edith - 2009

through which the social security system influences voter attitudes in favor of more liberal immigration regime. We …

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Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrant workers

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2012

opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized … ; unauthorized ; undocumented ; immigration ; Hispanic ; Arizona …

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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act reduce the state's unauthorized immigrant population?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2011

; unauthorized ; undocumented ; immigration ; Hispanic ; Arizona …

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