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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830132
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Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets: A Cross-National Analysis
Neumark, David; Korenman, Sanders - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
youth cohorts over the next 16 years (especially Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Projections suggest declining youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085226
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This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089122
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Financial Innovation for an Aging World
Mitchell, Olivia; Piggott, John; Sherris, Michael; Yow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging. In this paper, we explore how the demographic transition may influence financial markets and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050013
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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185004
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Who Suffers During Recessions?
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Miller, Douglas Lee; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we compare the cyclical sensitivity during the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188538
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Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration
Kaplan, Greg; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We analyze the secular decline in interstate migration in the United States between 1991 and 2011. Gross flows of people across states are about 10 times larger than net flows, yet have declined by around 50 percent over the past 20 years. We argue that the fall in migration is due to a decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821924
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
variables strategies. Moreover, we show that natives living in metro areas with a substantial Mexican-born population are … Mexican-born workforce reduced the incidence of local demand shocks on low-skilled natives' employment outcomes by roughly 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234896
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109524
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196772