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Baker, Scott R. - 2016

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

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Health, Employment, and Disability : Implications from the Undocumented Population

Borjas, George J. - 2018

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...

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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

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The slowdown in the economic assimilation of immigrants : aging and cohort effects revisited again

Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 9 (2015) 4, pp. 483-517

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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2010

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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The Effects of Technological Change on Earnings and Income Inequality Inthe United States

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between technological change and inequality in the U.S. since the late 1960's. The analysis focuses primarily on studying patterns and trends in the dispersion of various distributions of earnings and income during this recent period of rapid technological...

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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2018

This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the decennial U.S. Census throughout the entire 20th century. It is well known that there has been a rapid rise in Mexican immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly,...

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The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

Bloom, David E. - 2010

We explore the proposition that expected longevity affects retirement decisions and accumulated wealth using micro data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person's subjective probability of survival to age 75 as a proxy for their prospective...

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Job vacancies and immigration : evidence from the mariel supply shock

Anastasopoulos, L. Jason; Borjas, George J.; Cook, Gavin G. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 15 (2021) 1, pp. 1-33

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Language, Employment and Earnings in the United States : Spanish-English Differentials from 1970 to 1990

Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021

This paper analyzes employment and earnings differentials between Spanish speakers and English speakers in the United …

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