http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/2010/05/substitutability-as-default/ Sharpening my knife Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:32:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/2010/05/substitutability-as-default/comment-page-1/#comment-9588 pushmedia1 Mon, 10 May 2010 18:40:25 +0000 http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/?p=1531#comment-9588 ssendam, given our backgrounds and circumstances, you and I are about as close substitutes in the labor market as you can get. Are we close substitutes? ssendam, given our backgrounds and circumstances, you and I are about as close substitutes in the labor market as you can get. Are we close substitutes?

]]> http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/2010/05/substitutability-as-default/comment-page-1/#comment-9536 Agent Continuum Sat, 08 May 2010 17:44:26 +0000 http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/?p=1531#comment-9536 Migrants are usually less skilled than locals, at least for inflows to the US. Peri and Ciccone look at skill complementarity: http://ideas.repec.org/p/upf/upfgen/764.html Migrants are usually less skilled than locals, at least for inflows to the US. Peri and Ciccone look at skill complementarity: http://ideas.repec.org/p/upf/upfgen/764.html

]]> http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/2010/05/substitutability-as-default/comment-page-1/#comment-9522 ssendam Sat, 08 May 2010 01:44:36 +0000 http://www.ambrosini.us/wordpress/?p=1531#comment-9522 Like what? Immigrants are people just like you and me, so they're gonna be working at the same jobs as you and me. Like what? Immigrants are people just like you and me, so they’re gonna be working at the same jobs as you and me.

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