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A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments

Borusyak, Kirill; Hull, Peter; Jaravel, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A recent econometric literature shows two distinct paths for identification with shift-share instruments, leveraging either many exogenous shifts or exogenous shares. We present the core logic of both paths and practical takeaways via simple checklists. A variety of empirical settings illustrate...

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Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience

Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean municipalities from 2010-2015 on the internal migration of natives. Using Korean survey data we are able to distinguish between natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons....

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How Good are Proxies for Legal Status? : Evidence from the Legalization of Two Million Mexicans

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan; Zhang, Chengguo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). We find that occupation and program use variables in a prominent proxy for legal status poorly detect this event. A decade after legalization, the share of...

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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...

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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...

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Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy : Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns

Denes, Matthew R.; Lagaras, Spyridon; Tsoutsoura, Margarita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

on U.S. tax returns to study the role of the gig economy on entrepreneurship. We find that gig workers are more likely to …

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton Hughes - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Levine, Ross - 2018

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …

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