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A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits

Hersch, Joni - 2003

How can workers have a voice in the face of declining unionization and rising nontraditional career paths? To demonstrate how a new labor market institution can emerge, I develop a model of fundraising by a workers' organization in which the founder must allocate resources between the provision...

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Unions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement

Callaway, Brantly - 2017

We study a novel dataset compiled from archival records, which includes information on men's wages, union status, educational attainment, work history, and other background variables for several cities circa 1950. Such data are extremely rare for the early post-war period when U.S. unions were...

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000

effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …

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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development

McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …

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Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement

McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …

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Technology and Resilience

Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Cirera, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …

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Military Service and Public Sector Employment : Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records

Johnson, Tim - 2019

induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …

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The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors

Deza, Monica - 2020

We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of …

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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

Conley, Dalton - 2011

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

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The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify … risk on out-of-state migration also imply that the Vietnam War led to substantial geographic churning in the national labor …

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