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Skills and Talent of Immigrants:A Comparison between the European Union and the United States

Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005

The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration … costs, the increase in international migration has involved mainly highly educated workers. During the same period … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U ….S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as …

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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006

This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? Building on section VII of Borjas (2003) we emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this...

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Task Specialization, Immigration and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2009

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2009

new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending … countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple … international migration. Our estimates clearly show that bilateral migration flows are increasing in the income per capita gap …

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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...

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Migration and Trade: Theory with an Application to the Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2009

explain the patterns of trade and migration as countries remove barriers to trade and to labor mobility. We parameterize the … liberalization which occured between 1989 and 2004, and then the gains and losses from migration which are expected to occur if legal … barriers to labor mobility are substantially reduced. The lower barriers to migration would result in significant migration of …

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The Effects of Immigration on California's Labor Market

Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006

US natives. Our estimates use international migration to other U.S. states as instrument for international migration to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620496