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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment: Do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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A new framework for the analysis of inequality
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey: the importance of controlling for censoring
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2008
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...
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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008
construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …
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Unemployment insurance generosity: a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269178
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Well-being across America
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2009
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will …
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
for the smaller samples of sub-groups of the workforce, the general findings are robust to this measurement issue. Thus …
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories: theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - 2008
the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …
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Does it matter who responded to the survey? Trends in the US gender earnings gap revisited
Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae - 2011
their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …
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