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The Real Effects of Banking the Poor : Evidence from Brazil

Fonseca, Julia; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how financial development affects economic development and wage inequality. We use a large expansion of … increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are … development affects inequality. Our results are inconsistent with alternative explanations such as differential exposure to Brazil …

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The Crime Effect of Refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health

Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on unique data we construct through linking...

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The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector : Evidence from Higher Education

Baker, Michael; Halberstam, Yosh; Kroft, Kory; Mas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of...

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The Influence of Occupational Licensing on Workforce Transitions to Retirement

Oh, Yun Taek; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When and how workers transition from career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre-...

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An Empirical Framework For Matching With Imperfect Competition

Chan, Mons; Kroft, Kory; Mattana, Elena; Mourifié, Ismael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

setting and two-sided heterogeneity in order to shed light on the sources of wage inequality. We provide a tractable … amenities and strategic interactions to equilibrium wage inequality. Using instrumental variables, we establish identification … main sources of wage inequality in Denmark …

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The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality

Sorkin, Isaac; Wallskog, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

in earnings inequality in the United States. This paper shows that a distinct cross-cohort pattern drives this rise … inequality. Second, cohort effects imply a slow diffusion of inequality: we expect inequality to continue to rise as older and … that this momentum could be substantial with increases in between-firm inequality in the next two decades almost as large …

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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

90-10 log wage inequality. Wage compression was accompanied by rapid nominal wage growth and rising job …

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings

Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic …-induced losses to business earnings in 2020 were 16-19 percent for all business owners. Racial inequality increased in the pandemic …, and mask mandates did not contribute to racial inequality in business earnings losses …

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