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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs : U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign it Workers
Bound, John - 2014
The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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The Unwavering Ses Achievement Gap : Trends in U.S. Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2019
Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational achievement gaps by socio-economic status (SES). Using intertemporally linked assessments from NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA, we trace the achievement of U.S. student...
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2023
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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The Homecoming of American College Women : The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2021
Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … at first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students …
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A Reconsideration of the Effects of Unionism on Relative Wages and Employment in the United States, 1920-80
Pencavel, John H. - 2010
H. Gregg Lewis' estimates of the relative wage effect of unionism between 1920 and 1958 are routinely cited though they have rarely been subject to scrutiny. This paper extends Lewis' data to 1980 and, in particular, we construct a series on union membership that links up with the data available...
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Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2010
Health Insurance has claimed a prominent place on the policy agenda in the United States. Critics argue that the status quo has lead to spiraling health care costs, an inequitable distribution of quality medical care, and that employer-provided health insurance has quot;lockedquot; individuals...
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Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Albouy, David - 2019
We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage levels converge despite contrasting migration patterns...
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...
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U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
Asquith, Brian - 2017
International trade exposure affects job creation and destruction along the intensive margin (job flows due to expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the...
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The U.S. Labor Market During the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession
Cajner, Tomaz - 2020
Using weekly administrative payroll data from the largest U.S. payroll processing company, we measure the evolution of the U.S. labor market during the first four months of the global COVID-19 pandemic. After aggregate employment fell by 21 percent through late-April, employment rebounded...
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