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Calcutta, Bombay, Hong Kong, Singapore and I don't know how many other places were founded in much the same way. Practically the entire non-white population were immigrants from surrounding regions. They all came voluntarily.

And yet, if you show people pictures of those cities in the days when a tiny unelected white minority ruled over vast populations of brown and yellow people, they still use words like "colonialism" and "racism".

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In that more technical paper Peri found a clever way to control for Ive discussed before that can contaminate estimates of the effects of immigration on native employment outcomes. I thought it was important though to point out that academic economists dont really contest the existence of this . That said we have learned a lot by trying to poke holes in the landmark experimental studies summarized and ..While those famous papers dealt with important measurement issues weve also learned that experimental studies are inadequate to deal with at least two other factors indicated by economic theory that may be biasing the one way or another..First and this is the measurement issue dealt with by the experimental studies we want to be sure that there is not something that makes a particular area or job a more attractive place to work causing both foreigners and natives to migrate to that area or job.

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