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Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Nielson … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more … for adult refugees and improved their economic integration, had significant intergenerational spillover effects in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361995
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Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection : Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc
Abramitzky, Ran; Baseler, Travis; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants' self-selection out of the USSR and its satellite states before and after the collapse of Communism using census microdata from the three largest destination countries: Germany, Israel, and the United States. We find that migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334422
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250138
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New Frontiers : The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
Autor, David H.; Chin, Caroline; Salomons, Anna M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We address three core questions about the hypothesized role of newly emerging job categories ('new work') in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand: what is the substantive content of new work; where does it come from; and what effect does it have on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362043
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The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs
Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388819
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544803
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Expertise
Autor, David H.; Thompson, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? We argue the answer depends on whether removing tasks raises or reduces the expertise required for remaining non-automated tasks. Since the same task may be relatively expert in one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015421892
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In Good Company : Coethnic Advisors and Career Paths of Immigrant Ph.D. Students
Fry, Caroline; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
In this paper, we examine the role of coethnic advisor-student matching in U.S. Ph.D. programs in attracting, training and guiding immigrant talent into top jobs in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Using comprehensive administrative data on 1,769 AI Ph.D. graduates from top U.S. programs, combined...
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362035
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States … during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that …
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