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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks

Kim, Gueyon - 2024

The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?

Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits...

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The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Lee, Jongkwan - 2019

We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....

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The Employment Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Evidence from the 1930's

Lee, Jongkwan - 2017

During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was that repatriations would reduce local unemployment and give jobs to Americans, alleviating the...

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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2015

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...

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Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux

Caiumi, Alessandro; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the analysis to include the more recent years 2000-2022....

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences : Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana - 2007

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration costs, the increase in international migration has...

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Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Nielson … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training for adult refugees and improved their economic...

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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