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Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

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Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Middle-Age Job Mobility : Its Determinants and Consequences

Bartel, Ann P. - 1977

Our paper uses the wealth of information available in the NLS to expand on previous work in several ways. First, we investigate whether there is a meaningful distinction among types of job separations. Traditional analysis has categorized job separations as either employee-initiated (quits) or...

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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. - 2015

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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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

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Work from Home and Disability Employment

Bloom, Nicholas - 2024

There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment in the US since the pandemic, a pattern mirrored in other … microdata, we find the increase in disability employment is concentrated in occupations with high levels of working from home … increases full-time employment by 1.1% for individuals with a physical disability. A back of the envelope calculation reveals …

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

Borjas, George J. - 2009

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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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration : Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006

Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 percent labor supply shift is associated with a 3 to 4...

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Self-Selection and Internal Migration in the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1992

Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. The theoretical approach highlights regional differences in the returns to skills: regions that pay higher returns...

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