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Should the US have locked the heaven's door? : Reassessing the benefits of the postwar immigration

Chojnicki, Xavier (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among natives. Our analysis relies on a computable general equilibrium...

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Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric; Ragot, Lionel - 2021

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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market

Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

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Anti-competitive and regulatory barriers in the United States labour market

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality of services, it also creates entry barriers and...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …

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Some like it hot : assessing longer-term labor market benefits from a high-pressure economy

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Moore, Robert E. - 2018

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.

De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States

Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the US. We use data on local labor markets, states and regions from the Census and American Community Survey over the period 1970-2010. We first look at simple correlations and then...

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