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This paper uses 1990 Census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on the labor market opportunities of natives and older immigrants. I divide new immigrants, older immigrants, and natives into distinct skill groups and focus on skill-group-specific outcomes within cities. An important...
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Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …
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immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
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Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …
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