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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration. … wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American …

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Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrant workers

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2012

opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …

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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …

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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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Noncitizen Coverage and Its Effects on U.S. Population Statistics

Brown, J. David; Heggeness, Misty L.; Murray-Close, Marta - 2023

We produce 2020 population estimates using 31 administrative record (AR) sources. Our AR census national population estimate is 1.8% greater than the 2020 Demographic Analysis high estimate, 3.0% more than the 2020 Census count, and 3.6% higher than the vintage-2020 Population Estimates Program...

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The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years

Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...

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