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We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched …
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change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender dis-aggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee …
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It is widely believed that the presence of a large informal sector increases the efficiency cost of social programs - transfer and social insurance programs - in developing countries. We evaluate such claims for policies that have been heavily studied in countries with low informality -...
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The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 11.4 million undocumented persons reside in the United States. Congress and President Obama are considering a number of proposals to regularize the status of the undocumented population and provide a "path to citizenship." Any future change in...
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We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark …
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We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a …
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population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative …
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disorder (BD). Individual-level registry data from Denmark show that these disorders carry large earnings penalties, ranging …
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implication that wealth should decline over time. The risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenditures is negligible in Denmark … explanations are not plausible for Denmark (and therefore also questionable for the U.S.). Our analysis instead attempts to explain …
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This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce … by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are … choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to …
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