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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David - 2017
, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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The Aggregate Implications of Gender and Marriage
Borella, Margherita - 2016
Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women and married people make up for a large fraction of the population and of labor market participants, total hours worked, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have...
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Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women
Olivetti, Claudia - 2016
employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …
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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
Kojima, Fuhito - 2010
Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable...
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
Eissa, Nada - 1998
Over 18 million taxpayers are projected to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in tax year 1997, at a total cost to the federal government of about 25 billion dollars. The EITC is refundable, so that any amount of the credit exceeding the family's tax liability is returned in the form of...
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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral response to welfare reform differed by recency of immigration. Finally … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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A Nation of Immigrants : Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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