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The large-scale persecution of Jews during World War II generated massive refugee movements. Using data from 20,441 predominantly Jewish passengers from 19 countries traveling from Lisbon to New York between 1940 and 1942, we analyze the last wave of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify...
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Empirical research on U.S. immigrants is reviewed: their productivity and assimilation; their contribution and use of public services; and their impact on native Americans. I discuss the characteristics of cohorts of immigrants that enter the United States at different times and then quantify...
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early life interventions, intergenerational mobility, parental investments, fertility, health care provisionAAn important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input...
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attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …
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attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …
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-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth … regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that educational achievement strongly predicts economic growth across U ….S. states over the past four decades. Based on projections from our growth models, we show the enormous scope for state economic …
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-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth … regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that educational achievement strongly predicts economic growth across U ….S. states over the past four decades. Based on projections from our growth models, we show the enormous scope for state economic …
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This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...
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growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … potentially important implications for the interpretation of productivity statistics. Whether, for instance, productivity growth … productivity growth in manufacturing, I point to several pieces of evidence that suggest it is significant, and I argue that these …
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largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to …
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