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This paper examines the effect of changes in migration determinants on the skill level of undocumented immigrants from Mexico. The authors focus on the effect of changes in economic conditions, migrant networks, and border enforcement on the educational attainment of Mexican-born men who cross...
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Whether immigrants are positively or negatively self-selected is much disputed. Whereas most previous studies have addressed this question by comparing the wages of immigrants to those of U.S. natives, this analysis uses occupation to examine the skill level of immigrants. Data on the...
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High levels of immigration to the United States have caused the size of the foreign-born population to increase …
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knowledge plays a key role. However, especially the shrinking of industrialized societies, in which the population is ageing …
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This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are analyzed in a three-period overlapping generations...
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Time series regressions indicate that age structure has significant forecasting power on Swedish inflation. The results agree with a Phillips-Okun framework, assuming that the demographic composition affects productivity. The relative age effects are also relatively well in accordance with what...
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channels: total population, the age structure of the population, and economic output. Our analysis proceeds in two steps. First … demonstrate that the coefficient on population is nearly seven times larger than the coefficient on income per capita and that … this difference is statistically significant. Thus, regression results imply that 1% slower population growth could be …
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human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608 … level of fecundity that maximized long-run reproductive success was above the population average, indicating that natural … selection had decreased the level of fecundity in the population over this period. This evolutionary process may have …
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This paper describes how stochastic population forecasts are used to inform and analyze policies related to government … stochastic forecasts of population number and composition, using forecasts of the U.S. population by way of illustration. Next …
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In an effort to increase the use of prenatal care by pregnant women and the utilization of medical care by children, eligibility for Medicaid was expanded dramatically for pregnant women and children during the 1980s and early 1990s. By lowering the costs of prenatal care, delivery, and child...
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