First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the business cycle. The paper captures economic fluctuations by measuring deviations in local dem...

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Main Author: Xu, H. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) 2018
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