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Shaking Up the Equilibrium : Natural Disasters, Immigration and Economic Geography
Ager, Philipp - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of a large temporary shock on the agglomeration of economic activity. Using …
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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence
Fry, Julie - 2014
immigration as part of a strategy to pursue scale and agglomeration effects through increased population, or whether a decrease in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115677
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Migration and trade with external economies of scale
Collie, David R. - 2007
The analysis of migration in Findlay (1982) is extended by adding external economies of scale to the Ricardian model as in Ethier (1982). With external economies, the larger country always gains from trade but the smaller country may lose from trade unless the external economies of scale are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322805
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025309
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Skilled immigration and the employment structures of US firms
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2013
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229959
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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371319
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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William - 2009
agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends … combination of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s … and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720481
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Political Ideology and Individual-Level Attitudes Towards Immigration in the European Union : Evidence from the European Values Study, 2008/2009
Hlavac, Marek - 2011
Using data from the 2008/2009 wave of the European Values Study, I examine the determinants – demographic, socio-economic and ideological – of individual-level attitudes towards immigrants and of preferences over variously restrictive immigration policy regimes in the European Union (EU-27)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183217
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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William Fabius - 2014
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the fi rm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148352