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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...

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Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers

Jardim, Ekaterina S.; Long, Mark C.; Plotnick, Robert D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The boundary discontinuity method of causal inference may yield misleading results if a policy's impacts do not stop at the border of the implementing jurisdiction. We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the...

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Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions

Bils, Mark - 2014

Employment and hours appear far more cyclical than dictated by the behavior of productivity and consumption. This puzzle has been called "the labor wedge" -- a cyclical intratemporal wedge between the marginal product of labor and the marginal rate of substitution of consumption for leisure. The...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor

Carroll, Robert - 2000

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...

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Contractibility and Asset Ownership : On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking

Baker, George P. - 2000

We investigate how the contractibility of actions affecting the value of an asset affects asset ownership. We examine this by testing how on-board computer (OBC) adoption affects truck ownership. We develop and test the proposition that adoption should lead to less ownership by drivers,...

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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2000

A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector. We first present a new...

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Finders, Keepers?

Jaakkola, Niko - 2016

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...

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House Money and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, Sari - 2015

We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using micro data from the US Census Bureau …. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans … effects (i.e., that people with more valuable homes are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to …

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Demographics and Entrepreneurship

Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded - 2011

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...

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