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Title: Nonmonotonic Immigration Policy

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: The literature on immigration policies/quotas in terms of human capital has been growing in the last decade. Typically immigration policies in this literature tend to be monotonic filters, i.e. they favor immigrantsoverrepresentation at the top or bottom of the skill spectrum but neither the middle nor both, top and bottom. We provide some evidence on the lack of this monotonicity in the data and propose one explanation.

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Authors: Ruano, Gerardo Gomez

Publisher: Boston University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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