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The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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social security and migration. We characterize sub-game perfect Markov equilibria where immigration policy and pay … demonstrate that the older is the native born population the more likely is that the immigration policy is liberalized and the …
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characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks …
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rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities … to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind … immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor …
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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …
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