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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan - 2010

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation within and between industries. While the opening of...

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...

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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, Andopenness

Higgins, Matthew; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects. We …

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Substitution between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

Borjas, George J. - 2011

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and graduates. This paper revisits the estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that...

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The Immigrant and Native-Born Wage Distributions : Evidence from United States Censuses

Butcher, Kristin F.; DiNardo, John E. - 2021

Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis ... vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...

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The Impact of Assimilation on the Earnings of Immigrants : a Reexamination of the Evidence

Borjas, George J. - 2021

This paper reexamines the empirical basisfor two "facts" which seem to be found in most cross-section studies of immigrant earnings: (1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S.; and (2) this rapid growth leads to many immigrants overtaking the earnings of the...

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2010

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022

In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test Borjas' negative-selection hypothesis that in poor...

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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market : Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Naidu, Suresh - 2014

without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm …

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Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes : Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada

Warman, Casey - 2015

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization and the resulting technological change was leading to a...

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