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Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility
By: Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini
We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930. Using a shift-share design, we find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have children,... View Details
Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility." Journal of Economic History (forthcoming). (Winner of European Economic Association Young Economist Award, 2018. Featured in HBS Working Knowledge.)
- February 2019
- Background Note
Mexican Farmworkers in the United States
By: Forest Reinhardt and Jonathan Schlefer
This note discusses the centuries-long history and current situation of Mexican farmworkers north of the border—documented or undocumented, resident or temporary, and increasingly indigenous. The story provides the background for discussion of dilemmas facing... View Details
Keywords: Migrant Farmworkers; Mexican Farmworkers; Agribusiness; Labor; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Mexican Farmworkers in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 719-047, February 2019.
- June 2008
- Teaching Note
Showdown on the Waterfront: The West Coast Port Dispute (TN) (A) & (B)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Dina R. Witter Pradel and Cailin B. Hammer
Teaching Note for [904045] and [904067]. View Details
- 06 Jul 2021
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The Data Economy Is a Barter Economy
- 24 Jan 2014
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Care.com’s IPO Raises about $91m
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immigration policy to ease labor shortages. Finance and Investing Finance insights on inflation, crypto trends, NFT potential, private equity, strategies for shifting markets, and more. Regulation and Compliance Global insights on... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
leads the Athens-based multinational producer of cement and other building materials. He ticks through a long list of issues that have made Greece unfriendly to business, from thickets of overregulation and archaic labor laws to the lack... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
the new top band leaves, because they have optionality. And so we do have this quicksand that we're sucking ourselves down into, for very seemingly logical reasons, that creates a system failure and continues to suck down the labor... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity
"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli when he said, “You never want a... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And beer makers are looking to meet... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she... View Details
- Portrait Project
Leo Chang
I will run with my baton. My baton smells of gunpowder from the hands of my ancestors, as they led armies into battle to forge a modern China. My baton is dulled by grime from my grandfather's hands, as the one-time physicist toiled in hard View Details
Jeff Goldman
sections at two nationally recognized law firms for 11 years, Jeff opened his own practice in 2011. Jeff has successfully filed thousands of H-1B, L-1, O-1 and E-2 petitions, and more than 2000 PERM Labor Certification applications. A... View Details
Jeff Goldman
sections at two nationally recognized law firms for 11 years, Jeff opened his own practice in 2011. Jeff has successfully filed thousands of H-1B, L-1, O-1 and E-2 petitions, and more than 2000 PERM Labor Certification applications. A... View Details
Keywords: Legal
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Transparency in a Simple Labor Market,” she and Brown University’s Bobak Pakzad-Hurson drew on data from online platforms used by employers seeking temporary workers; they also conducted an experiment that involved managers and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
from conservatives. "Historically, the United States has always risen to face its greatest challenges," says Dean Nitin Nohria. "The message from business and labor to our political leaders is clear: We must make the word compromise an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM bailouts. Now he’s gotten an... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing