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

Borjas, George J. - 2009

improvement in immigrant performance is not explained by changes in origin-country composition, educational attainment or state of …

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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1991

immigrant flow than that which entered the United States. This skill gap, however, is mostly attributable to differences in the … national origin mix of the immigrant flows admitted by the two countries. In effect, the point system "works" because it alters … the national origin mix of immigrant flows, and not because it generates a more skilled immigrant flow from a given source …

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

Borjas, George J. - 2005

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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Immigration and Economic Growth

Borjas, George J. - 2019

a more beneficial impact on growth when the immigrant flow is composed of high-skill workers …

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if they did not use the phrase. The term "human capital," seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1990s. The upsurge...

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