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Title: Keep it or lose it? Labor market returns to origin-specific immigrant skills

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: Does trade with immigrants’ country of origin generate returns to countryspecific knowledge and skills that they bring to the destination? I examine this question in the context of US trade with Mexico. Using NAFTA as a shock, I show that trade intensification with Mexico strongly and positively affects wages, occupational upgrading and inter-industry sorting of Mexican descendants in the US, specifically those employed in managerial occupations. The results suggest complementarity between origin- and destination-specific skills and knowledge, as the benefits of trade are mostly accrued to the US-born Mexican descendants.

Url: http://conference.iza.org/conference_files/JuniorSenior_2020/surovtseva_t29025.pdf

Url: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j2mwl9rpq7ti1l2/ImmigrantSkills 2018 October.pdf?dl=0

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Authors: Surovtseva, Tetyana

Publisher: IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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