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January 2024, Paper: "Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable errors. About 8…
November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-…
December 13, 2021, Paper: "The number of disability beneficiaries has doubled in the past two decades. It is difficult to determine how much is explained by changes in health, as…
April 2021, Paper: "Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were…
November 2020, Paper: "Beginning in 1951, the Conference Board constructed a monthly job vacancy index by counting the number of help-wanted ads published in local newspapers in…
September 17, 2020, Paper: "In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, New York City closed all nonessential businesses and restricted the out-of-home…
May 2020, Paper, "Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated…
Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods. George Borjas, April 2020, Paper, "New York City is the hot spot of the COVID…
The Wage Penalty to Undocumented Immigration. George Borjas, May 2019, Paper, "This paper examines the determinants of the wage penalty experienced by undocumented workers,…
Immigration and Economic Growth. George Borjas, May 2019, Paper, "Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however,…