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Human capital policy : reducing inequality, boosting mobility and productivity

Neumark, David (ed.); Kim, Yong-seong (ed.); … - 2021

those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA. Contributors analyse trends in … policy prescriptions for the improvement of higher education financing in the USA. Offering theoretical insights into the … chapters consider recent empirical evidence on disadvantaged people in the USA, before broadening the scope of analysis to …

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Spatial mismatch, immigrant networks, and Hispanic employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009

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Detecting discrimination in audit and correspondence studies

Neumark, David - 2010

"Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...

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Beaches, sunshine, and public-sector pay : theory and evidence on amenities and rent extraction by government workers

Brueckner, Jan K.; Neumark, David - 2011

"The absence of a competitive market and the presence and strength of public-sector labor unions make it likely that public-sector pay reflects an element of rent extraction by government workers. In this paper, we test a specific hypothesis that connects such rent extraction to the level of...

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Fiscal zoning and sales taxes : do higher sales taxes lead to more retailing and less manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2011

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Public policy, state business climates, and economic growth

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar - 2011

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Is it harder for older workers to find jobs? : new and improved evidence from a field experiment

Neumark, David; Burn, Ian; Button, Patrick - 2015

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Labor market networks and recovery from mass layoffs before, during, and after the Great Recession

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2015

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Does protecting older workers from discrimination make it harder to get hired? : evidence from disability discrimination laws

Neumark, David; Song, Joanne; Button, Patrick - 2015

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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families : what do we know now?

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-34

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

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