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Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI
Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I examine the specialization of US commuting zones in AI-related occupations over the 2000 to 2018 period. I define AI-related jobs based on keywords in Census occupational titles. Using the approach in Lin (2011) to identify new work, I measure job growth related to AI by weighting employment...
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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life
Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
' labor market outcomes using data from the CPS and the Health and Retirement Study. Our models control for occupation and … time fixed effects and in some models; we also control for full occupation-time interactions and use middle aged (age 40 …
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Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences
Petrova, Maria; Schubert, Gregor; Taska, Bledi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Career opportunities and expectations shape people's decisions and can diminish over time. In this paper, we study the career implications of automation and robotization using a novel data set of resumes from approximately 16 million individuals from the United States. We calculate the lifetime...
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
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Hit Harder, Recover Slower? : Unequal Employment Effects of the Covid-19 Shock
Lee, Sang Yoon; Park, Minsung; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
and ethnicity, age, education level, and a worker's industry and occupation all mattered. We analyze the initial negative …
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Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2006
In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it...
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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 … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …
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Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966-2017
Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital, measured using both educational attainment and test performance, to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning 1966 through 2017. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the...
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The Effects of Disclosure and Enforcement on Payday Lending in Texas
Wang, Jialan; Burke, Kathleen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Inspired by the field experiment in Bertrand and Morse (2011), the state of Texas adopted an information disclosure for consumers taking out payday loans starting in January, 2012. The disclosure compares the cost of payday loans with other credit products, and presents their likelihood of...
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Tax Planning Knowledge Diffusion via the Labor Market
Barrios, John M.; Gallemore, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a...
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