Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Immigration"

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    • Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical? 

      Frankel, Jeffrey A. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical ...

    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians 

      Borjas, George J.; Doran, Kirk (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx ...

    • The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border 

      Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pritchett, Lant (2009)
      We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...

    • Poverty and Program Participation among Immigrant Children 

      Borjas, George J. (Brookings Institution Press, 2011)
      Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in the labor market. But ...