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Low-skilled immigration and the labor supply of highly skilled women
Cortés, Patricia; Tessada, José A. - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 3, pp. 88-123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237544
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Smooth(er) landing? : the dynamic role of networks in the location and occupational choice of immigrants
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664466
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Who comes and why? : determinants of immigrants skill level in the early XXth century US
Covarrubias, Matías; Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312265
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Who comes and why? : determinants of immigrants skill level in the early XXTH Century US
Covarrubias, Matías; Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A. - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 81 (2015) 1, pp. 115-155
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312756
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More hands, more power? : estimating the impact of immigration on output and technology choices using early 20th century US agriculture
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; González-Velosa, … - In: Journal of international economics 97 (2015) 2, pp. 339-358
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566071
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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing, 1860–1930, using immigration shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne; Lewis, Ethan; Tessada, José A. - In: The review of economics and statistics 101 (2019) 1, pp. 30-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039253
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New technologies, productivity, and jobs : the (heterogeneous) effects of electrification on US manufacturing
Fiszbein, Martín; Lafortune, Jeanne; Lewis, Ethan; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404613
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Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930 : The Rise of (Skilled) Labor?
Lafortune, Jeanne; Lewis, Ethan; Martinez, Jose Pablo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates returns to scale for manufacturing industries around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on average over the period, contrary to most of the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510512
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More hands, more power? : estimating the impact of immigration on output and technology choices using early 20th century US agriculture
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; González-Velosa, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746056