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The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large … high skilled cohort, and its quick integration into the domestic labor market. Immigration also changed the entire economic … Union within a short time, is also relevant for the current debate about winners and losers from immigration. This paper …
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-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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relevant for the current debate about migration and globalization. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large high … ranked at the top of intergenerational upward mobility. Immigration also changed the entire economic landscape: it raised …
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-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such …
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We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm's outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
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In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born...
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
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We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …
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