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The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018 This paper studies the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote share for the Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 to 2016.
A. Mayda, G. Peri, Walter Steingress
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The American Economic Review, 2018 We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border.
Andreas Beerli +3 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16389 AUGUST 2023 The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019* We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success.
Jaime Arellano-Bover, Shmuel San
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The Persistence of Local Joblessness
The American Economic Review, 2018 Differences in employment-population ratios across US commuting zones have persisted for many decades. We claim these disparities represent real gaps in economic opportunity for individuals of fixed characteristics.
M. Amior, A. Manning
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Skill Remoteness and Post-Layoff Labor Market Outcomes
Social Science Research NetworkLocal skill remoteness captures the dissimilarity between the skill profiles of a worker’s last job and other jobs in a local labor market. Higher skill remoteness at layoff is associated with persistently lower earnings after layoff, a higher ...
Claudia Macaluso
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Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants
Journal of Labor EconomicsThis paper studies the legalization of 600,000 non-EU immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government following the terrorist attacks of 2004. By comparing non-EU to EU immigrants we first estimate that the policy did not lead to magnet effects.
Ferran Elias +2 more
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16297 JULY 2023 Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France.
G. Borjas, Anthony Edo
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Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016 Could we significantly reduce US unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder.com, we show that, indeed, workers dislike applying to distant jobs: job seekers are 35 percent less ...
I. Marinescu, Roland Rathelot
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Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16438 SEPTEMBER 2023 Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance* We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States.
Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes +3 more
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The Evolution of Local Labor Markets after Recessions
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper studies how US local labor markets respond to employment losses that occur during recessions. Following recessions from 1973 through 2009, we find areas that lose more jobs during the recession experience persistent relative declines in ...
Brad J. Hershbein, B. Stuart
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