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Lokshin, Michael - 2019

It will be politically difficult to liberalize international migration without protecting host-country workers. The … paper explores the scope for efficiently managing migration using a competitive market for work permits. Host-county workers …

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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....

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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2022

We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms’ employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …

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Return Migrants’ Self-Selection : Evidence for Indian Inventor

Breschi, Stefano - 2018

migration. For each individual in the dataset, we both estimate the year of entry in the United States, the likely entry channel … (work or education), and the permanence spell up to either the return to India or right truncation. By means of survival … analysis, we then provide exploratory estimates of the probability of return migration as a function of the conditions at …

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General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs : Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017

population of 62,500 each) that improved the implementation of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme. The reform …

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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India

Hasan, Rana; Mitra, Devashish; Ramaswamy, K. V. - 2021

Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....

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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives : A Reappraisal

Borjas, George J. - 2008

In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...

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Mobility Zones

Monte, Ferdinando - 2020

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual mobility directly or indirectly connects all...

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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