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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 immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions : A Revealed-Preference Approach
Porcher, Charly; Morales, Eduardo; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the role of information frictions in migration. We develop novel moment inequalities to estimate worker preferences while allowing for unobserved worker-specific information sets, migration costs, and location-specific amenities and prices. Using data on internal migration in...
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Location, Location, Location
Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program to study the causal effects of location on earnings. Starting from a model with employer and employee fixed effects, we estimate the average earnings premiums associated with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and...
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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 implications for individual welfare, macroeconomic adjustments, and other key outcomes. This paper studies the determinants of internal migration and how they have changed over...
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Contrasting the Local and National Demographic Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks
Mansfield, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines how spatial frictions that differ among heterogeneous workers and establishments shape the geographic and demographic incidence of alternative local labor demand shocks, with implications for the appropriate level of government at which to fund local economic initiatives....
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Moving to Opportunity, Together
Jayachandran, Seema; Nassal, Lea Maria; Notowidigdo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse's career or the other's. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men's earnings more...
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Feeding the Tigers : Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka
Bonadio, Barthélémy; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rohner, Dominic - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
subnational level. Using shocks to source country remittance outflows, we show that exogenous increases in remittances accessible … to the Sri Lankan subdistricts over the period of the conflict. Our main quantitative finding is that remittances had a … military strength of the Tamil Tigers than of the government. Remittances that favored the Tamil Tiger rebels may have …
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? The Redistribution of Wealth Caused by Rent Control
Ahern, Kenneth R.; Giacoletti, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use the price effects caused by the passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2021, to study the transfer of wealth across income groups. First, we find that rent control caused property values to fall by 6-7%, for an aggregate loss of $1.6 billion. A calibrated model of house prices...
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On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Agostinelli, Francesco; Luflade, Margaux; Martellini, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to which educational access is determined by sorting based on heterogeneous preferences over school attributes, or local...
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Re-assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use detailed location information from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database to develop new evidence on the effects of spatial mismatch on the relative earnings of Black workers in large US cities. We classify workplaces by the size of the pay premiums they offer in a...
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