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You Can't Take It with You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital
- Rachel M. Friedberg
- Economics, Business
- Journal of Labor Economics
- 1 November 1996
The national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value. Education and labor market experience acquired abroad are significantly less valued than human capital… Expand
The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market
- Rachel M. Friedberg
- Economics
- 1 November 2001
Immigration increased Israel's population by 12 percent between 1990 and 1994, after emigration restrictions were lifted in an unstable Soviet Union. Following the influx, occupations that employed… Expand
The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth
- Rachel M. Friedberg, Jennifer N. Hunt
- Economics
- 1 May 1995
The popular belief that immigrants have a large adverse impact on the wages and employment opportunities of the native-born population of the receiving country is not supported by the empirical… Expand
Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
- G. Borjas, Rachel M. Friedberg
- Economics
- 1 October 2009
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the… Expand
You can't take it with you? : immigrant assimilation and the portability of human capital : evidence from Israel
- Rachel M. Friedberg
- Political Science
- 1995
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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States
- Rachel M. Friedberg, D. A. Jaeger
- Political Science
- 17 November 2009
While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is… Expand
Immigration and the receiving economy.
- Rachel M. Friedberg, J. Hunt
- Economics
- 1998
This paper reviews theories about the impact of immigration on the receiving economy. It presents a critical overview of empirical evidence of immigrations impact on wages employment rates… Expand
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18 Immigration and the Receiving Econoll 1 Y
THE PUBLIC DEBATE OVER immigration policy in the United States has become quite heated in re cent years. The passage of Proposition 187 in Cal ifornia in 1994, making illegal aliens ineligible for… Expand