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The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality
Feyrer, James - 2009
This paper examines whether management changes caused by the entry of the baby boom into the workforce explain the US productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a significant role in determining output. If there is...
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880
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The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
Bloom, David E. - 2009
We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463827
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Fear, Unemployment and Migration
Blanchflower, David G. - 2007
UK population growth over the past thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries. The UK population has grown at a faster pace since the turn of the millennium. Both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465140
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"Momma's Got the Pill" : How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - 2009
The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463972
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Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States : Has There Been Convergence?
Haines, Michael R. - 2002
This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the … three dimensions of demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469671
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247997
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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective
Hanson, Gordon H.; Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early...
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 1991
Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
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