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Human Capital Spillovers and Health : Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?

Bor, Jacob H.; Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....

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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil

Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

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The Timing of Labor Demand

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene - 2007

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …

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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …

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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap : Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

Card, David - 2015

-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …

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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory

Card, David - 2016

We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...

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The Spatial Mismatch Between Innovation and Joblessness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019

? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge …'s most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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