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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives

Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … possible endogeneity of immigration flows, we use the fact that many immigrants arriving after 1991 were refugees from the …

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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and...

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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United …

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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Meyer, Bruce D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially those from Asian countries, may displace black-owned business owners. We … use Census of Population microdata to examine if black self-employment levels are lower in labor markets which have a …

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest … achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences …

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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and...

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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data

Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...

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