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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David - 2009

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David - 2005

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...

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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women : A Longitudinal Analysis

Card, David - 1994

Despite several decades of research there is still widespread disagreement over the interpretation of the wage differences between black and white workers. Do the differences reflect productivity differences, discrimination, or both? If lower black earnings reflect a productivity difference,...

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High School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM

Card, David - 2017

. Most of the gender gap in STEM entry can be traced to differences in the rate of STEM readiness; less than a fifth is due … in STEM readiness among university entrants into two channels: one reflecting the gender gap in the fraction of high … females and males who enter university. The gender gap in the fraction of students with STEM prerequisites is small. The main …

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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

Card, David - 2011

We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...

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