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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits

Neumark, David - 2011

The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...

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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Kolko, Jed - 2009

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

Neumark, David - 2008

We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy, but Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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Age Discrimination in Hiring : Evidence from Age-Blind vs. Non-Age-Blind Hiring Procedures

Neumark, David - 2020

I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates are much lower for older than for younger job...

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Immigration and Product Diversity

Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009

We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …

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