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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...

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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries

Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022

We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...

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Immigration and economic growth

Borjas, George J. - In: Prospects for economic growth in the United States, (pp. 78-112). 2021

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An executive order worth $ 100 billion : the impact of an immigration ban's announcement on Fortune 500 firms' valuation

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Glennon, Britta - 2020

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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

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The impact of legalizing unauthorized immigrants : while legalization benefits most unauthorized immigrants, deciding how to regularize them is challenging

Bansak, Cynthia; Pearlman, Sarah - 2021

Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...

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Rising immigration and falling native-born home ownership : a spatial econometric analysis for New Zealand

Li, Chao; Gibson, John K.; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2021

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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Does growing up in a recession increase compassion? : the case of attitudes towards immigration

Cotofan, Maria; Dur, Robert A. J.; Meier, Stephen - 2021

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Secular stagnation : is immigration part of the solution?

Alves, José; Morgado, Sandro - 2022

of an aging population and a declining working age population, hence highlighting the pertinence of immigration as a … the pertinence of immigration as a possible solution. …

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