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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor

Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla i … - 2011

In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production … function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these ….S. These results are used to explain the declining path of the labor income share, common to both economies, and their …

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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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

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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Competitive preferences among Asians in the U.S.

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2020

The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance...

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The wife's protector : a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2019

the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented. …

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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017

The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...

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