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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market
Bellou, Andriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband …
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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated …
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Latten, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich administrative individual data file. The inclination to move and the choice of destination neighbourhood are estimated, correcting for the selection bias of movers. Subsequently, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703476
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing...
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017521
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Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share analysis has been used to estimate the impact of rising employment on relative income poverty. This...
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The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers
Severnini, Edson R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to natural advantages? I present evidence on this question using data on the long-run effects of large scale hydroelectric dams built in the U.S. over the 20th century, obtained...
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