Population, changes in local labor supply during the 1980s are shown to have had little influence on local industry mix. Instead … Longitudinal Research Database, augmented with employment and labor force data from the 1980 and 1990 Censuses of Population …

. Conditioning on other variables, an immigration inflow equal to 1 percent of the city population is associated with increases in …

In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …

In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …