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The Great Mexican Emigration
Hanson, Gordon; McIntosh, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828773
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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
Boustan, Leah Platt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
1970 if not for the migrant influx, while white wages would have remained unchanged. On net, migration was an avenue for … black economic advancement, but the migration created both winners and losers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828889
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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Making it in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The ultimate impact of immigration on the United States obviously depends not only on the economic, social, political, and cultural shifts that take place during the life cycle of the immigrant population, but also on the adjustment process experienced by the immigrant household across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829276
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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
universities which produce them. Migration plays a significant role in some developing countries. …
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830012
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830132
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International … migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830148
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Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign...
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