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The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant employment rates. We show that even when...
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In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …
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inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …
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occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …
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We present evidence whereby immigration increases labour productivity while reducing the labour share, thus … labour share is orthogonal to immigration shocks in the long run. Instead, our empirical evidence better matches predictions …
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We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups, where studies in the first … two estimate different relative effects, and the third the total effect of immigration on wages. We interpret the … estimates in those approaches that estimate relative effects of immigration, but not in approaches that estimate total effects …
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wages and employment of younger and lesseducated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …
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In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967958
inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967964