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Immigration, skill mix, and the choice of technique
Lewis, Ethan (2005)
Using detailed plant-level data from the 1988 and 1993 Surveys of Manufacturing Technology, this paper examines the impact of skill mix in U.S. local labor markets on the use and adoption of automation technologies in manufacturing. The level of automation differs widely across U.S. metropolitan areas. In both 1988 and 1993, in markets with a higher relative availability of less skilled labor, comparable plants ? even plants in the same narrow (4-digit SIC) industries ? used systematically less automation. Moreover, between 1988 and 1993 plants in areas experiencing faster less-skilled ...
Working Papers , Paper 05-8

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Financial access for immigrants: the challenges and opportunities facing U.S. depository institutions
Newberger, Robin G.; Smith, Jeremy; Paulson, Anna L.; Singer, Audrey (2006-10)
Community Investments , Volume 18 , Issue Oct

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The occupational assimilation of Hispanics in the U.S.: evidence from panel data
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude (2004)
This study investigates whether Hispanic immigrants assimilate in occupational status with natives and the factors that determine occupational status. A theoretical framework is proposed that models occupational status and convergence of Hispanics relative to U.S.-born non-Hispanics as a function of human capital and demographic exogenous variables, U.S. experience (assimilation effects) and periods of migration (cohort effects). In addition, the model also controls for aggregate economic conditions and location effects. The empirical testing is based on a random effects model estimation ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-04-15

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From brawn to brains: how immigration works for America
Zavodny, Madeline; Orrenius, Pia M. (2010)
Immigrants help fuel the U.S. economy, representing about one in every six workers. Because of accelerated immigration and slowing U.S. population growth, foreign-born workers accounted for almost half of labor force growth over the past 15 years. Public attention has forcused mainly on the large number of low-skilled immigrant workers, but the number of high-skilled immigrants actually grew faster during the period.
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Prospects for immigrant-native wealth assimilation: evidence from financial market participation
Paulson, Anna L.; Osili, Una Okonkwo (2005)
Because financial transactions are important for wealth accumulation, and rely on trust and confidence in institutions, the financial market behavior of immigrants can provide important insights into the assimilation process. Compared to the native-born, immigrants are less likely to own savings and checking accounts and these differences tend to persist over time. Our results suggest that a large share of the immigrant-native gap in financial market participation is driven by group differences in education, income, and geographic location. For a given immigrant, the likelihood of financial ...
Proceedings , Paper 951

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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers
Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Hotchkiss, Julie L. (2008)
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers have significantly lower labor supply elasticity, likely as a result of their limited employment and grievance opportunities. Furthermore, the inflow of undocumented workers does more to displace earlier hired undocumented workers than it does to displace documented workers.
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2008-07

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Promoting economic prosperity by welcoming immigrants
Steinhardt, Rachel (2013-07)
Civic leaders are catching on to what savvy businesses already understand: diversity and immigration are opportunities that can improve prosperity for all.
Communities and Banking , Issue Summer , Pages 8-10

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How labor market policies shape immigrants’ opportunities
Solomon, Genevieve R.; Orrenius, Pia M. (2006)
When it comes to unemployment and labor force participation rates, immigrants do better in the United States than in most other countries. In 2005, for example, the foreign-born had average unemployment of 4.6 percent in the U.S., well below native-born workers? 5.2 percent. U.S. immigrants also had higher participation rates. The American experience stands in stark contrast to many other developed nations?. In France and Germany, for example, the foreign-born typically have jobless rates twice as high as native-born workers and lower participation rates. ; What accounts for these ...
Economic Letter , Volume 1

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Transnationalism: living in two worlds
Levitt, Peggy (2008-07)
Many immigrants vote, invest, and support families back home while starting businesses, establishing churches, and joining parent-teacher associations in the United States. Today savvy organizations recognize this growing transnationalism and collaborate across borders to reduce problems in two countries simultaneously.
Communities and Banking , Issue Sum , Pages 6-9

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Immigration and the neighborhood
Wachter, Susan M.; Saiz, Albert (2006)
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, the authors find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. They propose three nonexclusive explanations: changes in housing quality, reverse causality, or the hypothesis that natives find immigrant neighbors relatively less attractive (native flight). To instrument for the actual number of new immigrants, the authors deploy a geographic diffusion model that predicts the number of new immigrants in a neighborhood using lagged densities of the foreign-born ...
Working Papers , Paper 06-22

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