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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004
What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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How Managers Can Use Purchaser Performance Information to Improve Procurement Efficiency
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; Olivares, Marcelo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the effect of performance monitoring in public procurement through the lens of organizational culture in a principal-agent model where the manager (principal) and buyers (agents) may have different beliefs about how much the government values efficiency. We show that the effect of...
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … in more trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced …
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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...
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The Margins of Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2019
We introduce quality differentiation and an extensive margin of products into a standard quantitative, general equilibrium model of international trade. Both the quality and the quantity of a product play a role in its contribution both to consumption and to production. The framework allows...
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Dominant Currencies : How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why it Matters
Amiti, Mary - 2020
-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …
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