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Title: Essays on Immigration
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: This dissertation studies the interaction of immigration and fiscal policy. Chapter 1 establishes patterns of fertility, education, earnings for both immigrants and their children. Chapter 2 studies the substitutability of similarly qualified immigrants, as measured by educational attainment and degree field, and natives in production. I find a much greater degree of imperfect substitutability than previous literature and as a result can show the effects of previous immigration on the wages of unskilled workers is close to 0. Chapter 3 incorporates the findings from chapters 1 and 2 into a calibrated general equilibrium model with which I can run a number of immigration policy experiments. Using this framework I show that omitting the correlation between the skills of parents and their children will likely understate the effects of any immigration policy change in the U.S.
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Authors: Bradley, David
Institution: University of Minnesota
Department: Economics
Advisor: Ellen McGrattan
Degree: Ph.D.
Publisher Location: Minnesota
Pages: 92
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Migration and Immigration, Population Data Science
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