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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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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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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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In this paper the effects of a changing age distribution on aggregate consumption are analysed. This is done by estimating a Norwegian consumption function which controls for age structure effects. The model is estimated on quarterly time series data from 1968(3) to 1998(4). The results show...
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In this paper the effects on aggregate consumption of changes in the age distribution of the population are analysed … analysing Norwegian quarterly time series data we find that changes in the age distribution of the population have significant …
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