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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures – Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - CESifo - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts—the number of individuals of the same ethnicity—and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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Essays on employment protection

Kessing, Sebastian (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Dynamics of Labor Demand : Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications

Cooper, Russel W. - 2004

This paper studies the dynamics of labor demand at the plant and aggregate levels. The correlation of hours and employment growth is negative at the plant level and positive in aggregate time series. Further, hours and employment growth are about equally volatile at the plant level while hours...

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Partial Adjustment without Apology

King, Robert G. - 2003

Many kinds of economic behavior appear to be governed by discrete and occasional individual choices. Despite this, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment problem, we show how discrete and occasional...

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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures

Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.

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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2009

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Borjas, George J. - 2003

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …

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On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers From Ecuador

Benedict, Craig - 2016

In this paper, we argue that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. We develop a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail firms intermediate trade between producers and consumers. An important facet of our...

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How Exporters Grow

Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2016

We document how export quantities and prices evolve after entry to a market. Controlling for marginal cost, and taking account of selection on idiosyncratic demand, there are economically and statistically significant dynamics of quantities, but no dynamics of prices. To match these facts, we...

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Small and Large Price Changes and the Propagation of Monetary Shocks

Alvarez, Fernando - 2014

We document the presence of both small and large price changes in individual price records from the CPI in France and the US. After correcting for measurement error and cross-section heterogeneity, the size-distribution of price changes has a positive excess kurtosis. We propose an analytical...

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