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Lindenlaub, Ilse; Oh, Ryungha; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the importance of firm sorting for spatial inequality. If productive locations are able to attract the most productive firms, then firm sorting acts as an amplifier of spatial inequality. We develop a novel model of spatial firm sorting, in which heterogeneous firms first choose a...

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Location, Location, Location

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages …

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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education

Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the … labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for …

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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation

Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...

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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...

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Remote Work and City Structure

Monte, Ferdinando; Porcher, Charly; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

externality, but entails commuting costs. Switching between modes of labor delivery is costly, and workers face idiosyncratic …

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The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration

Olney, William W.; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Internal migration in the United States has declined substantially over the past several decades, which has important … internal migration and how they have changed over time. We use administrative data from the IRS covering the universe of … bilateral moves between every Commuting Zone (CZ) in the country over a 23 year period. This data is linked to information on …

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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility

Johnson, Matthew S.; Lavetti, Kurt; Lipsitz, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We analyze how the legal enforceability of noncompete agreements (NCAs) affects labor markets. Using newly-constructed panel data, we find that higher NCA enforceability diminishes workers' earnings and job mobility, with larger effects among workers most likely to sign NCAs. These effects are...

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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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