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Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … in scientific and engineering fields. By raising the demand for housing, immigration also spurs residential investment …
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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....
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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 …
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of recent immigration. Our model has two production sectors (manufacturing and services), two skill groups and two ethnic …, especially in the high skill segment. Our results show that recent immigration to Germany, including refugees, has a moderate … immigration, with high skill service employees gaining the most (+4.3%). This is because the productivity of high (low) skill …
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