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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2021

Starting in the 1980s, the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers partly due to the influx of Latin American immigrants in the past few decades. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some believe that...

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The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes : Evidence from US Coastal Counties

Strobl, Eric - 2021

We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...

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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe : U.S. Hurricane Births

Evans, Richard W. - 2007

have had at least one child already. In addition to our short-term effect estimation, we also test the effects of storm … this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast … counties of the United States. We find that low-severity storm advisories are associated with a positive and significant …

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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration : Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...

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Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans : A Bounds Analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an instrumental variable (IV). We start by assessing whether the...

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Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks

Sanchez Garcia, Manuel - 2017

We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The variance and average size of positive persistent shocks is decreasing over the life-cycle. The...

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Fatter Attraction : Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2011

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...

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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War : Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Galdo, José - 2010

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...

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Immigrants at New Destinations : How They Fare and Why

Carneiro, Anabela Jesus Moreira - 2010

Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants' earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...

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