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We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 … payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely …
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We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …
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This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a significant role in determining output. If there is...
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UK population growth over the past thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries. The UK population has grown at a faster pace since the turn of the millennium. Both the...
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The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
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This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the … three dimensions of demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups …
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Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
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migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
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Canada and the United States. The simulation model determines the perfect foresight transition path of an economy in which … handling changes in demographics and fiscal policies, the model can be run for closed or open economies.In comparing Canada … interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada …
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accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and … Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their …
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