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This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual … of adjustment of physical capital we show that most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers already …-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short and in the long run. This positive average effect …
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This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual … of adjustment of physical capital we show that most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers already …-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short and in the long run. This positive average effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229032
Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …
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inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants …, and the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that low …, this is not the case. Finally, we survey the pertinent academic literature and conclude that, on the whole, immigration to …
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Americans constitute the largest Polish diaspora worldwide. The results of the analysis show that U.S. immigration volumes are …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that … immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … of the US economy and estimates a wage elasticity of -0.4 with respect to immigration. In this paper, we replicate and …
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This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …
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