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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1991

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …

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Immigrants and Natives : Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996

Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …

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Why Has Economic Growth Slowed When Innovation Appears to be Accelerating?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2018

, mortality, life expectancy, and immigration. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between rising inequality and the … contributions to slowing growth are made by a decline in the population share of both legal and illegal immigration and a turnaround …

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Migration and Redistribution : Federal Governance of an Economic Union Matters

Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Both the U.S. and the EU are an economic union: There is a single market for goods, capital, finance, and labor. That is, there is free mobility of goods and services, physical and financial capital, and labor among the member countries of the union. Nevertheless, there is much higher degree of...

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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 1989

This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...

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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...

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Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto; Feenstra, Robert C.; Inklaar, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compare the cost of living and welfare across countries, while incorporating product variety measured by the count of barcodes or firms. For 47 countries, we compare welfare relative to the United States to conventional measures of real...

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The Wealth of Working Nations

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ventura, Gustavo; Yao, Wen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...

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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Cette, Gilbert - 2009

Capital deepening (at least to the extent this can be measured) accounts for a large share of the variations in performance; increasingly during the past 25 years, this has meant ICT capital deepening. However, the capital contribution to growth varies considerably over time and across the four...

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