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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration … wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American …
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
productivity growth as well as local exposures to global shocks--technology, trade, immigration, and population aging--predict the …
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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging : Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor market in which a larger supply of older workers can...
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...
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The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs
Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We...
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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?
Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate 97,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity, drug-induced causes, and alcohol-induced causes were...
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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine patterns of work in the U.S. from 1973-2018 with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled during this period, with over 8 million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The...
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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion
Giles, Tyler; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Oostrom, Tamar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent decades, death rates from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these "deaths of despair" began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious...
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The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...
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