| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29520 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29520 |
| Immigrant Labor and the Institutionalization of the U.S.-born Elderly | |
| Kristin F. Butcher; Kelsey Moran; Tara Watson | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-11-29 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly live in institutional settings. Using a shift-share instrument to identify exogenous variation in immigration, we find that a 10 percentage point increase in the less-educated foreign-born labor force share in a local area reduces institutionalization among the elderly by 1.5 and 3.8 percentage points for those aged 65+ and 80+, a 26-29 percent effect relative to the mean. The estimates imply that a typical U.S-born individual over age 65 in the year 2000 was 0.5 percentage points (10 percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels. We show that immigration affects the availability and cost of home services, including those provided by home health aides, gardeners and housekeepers, and other less-educated workers, reducing the cost of aging in the community. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29520 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587194 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kristin F. Butcher,Kelsey Moran,Tara Watson. Immigrant Labor and the Institutionalization of the U.S.-born Elderly. 2021. |
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| w29520.pdf（6779KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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