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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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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

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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Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

This paper examines the decentralization of employment using zip code data on employment by industry. Most American … cities are decentralized on average less than 16 percent of employment in metropolitan areas is within a three mile radius of … impact employment density which suggests that local government policies significantly influence the location of industry …

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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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Education and religion

Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 2 (2008) 2, pp. 188-215

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Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Naik, Nikhil - 2015

Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between the physical and social components of urban change is not well understood due to the lack of comprehensive measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we...

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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

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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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When are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

Cutler, David M. - 2007

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...

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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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