Used individual-level administrative register data to estimate the impact of immigration on natives' earnings. Effects are identified exploiting differences between occupations in the requirements for majority language skills.
The paper tests the three primary functions of media – agenda-setting, persuasion, and framing – in the context of international news and foreign perception.
This seminar extends the existing literature by using Census microdata to show that geographic sorting is also nativity-biased, and that immigrant workers sort into cities with higher wages and inelastic housing supplies.
Past Ph.D. students from the Department of Economics at UC Davis, who are currently faculty and researchers in different institutions around the world, will visit and present papers from their area of research.
Professor Gudrun Biffl will be discussing the challenges confronting governments, employers, and unions as well as the migrants seeking to integrate in Europe.