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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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-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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micro-level aspects of the relationship between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise …
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In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...
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measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents (“green card …
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From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …
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the labor market impact of immigration, and of the “stylized fact” that immigration might not have much impact on the wage …
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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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changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …
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include: (1) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the massive immigration to Israel which followed; (2) The Great Moderation …
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