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

Mahajan, Parag - 2022

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US time use survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-37

We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all-native couples using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18. We find that when intermarried to a native man, immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent that,...

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Consequences of immigrating during a recession : evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program

Mask, Joshua - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/21, pp. 1-31

Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …