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Culture: Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Petkov, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796742
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Mismatch Unemployment
topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119819
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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession
Leuz, Christian; Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The paper examines the effect of international regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration. We analyze directives in the European Union (EU) that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. This regulatory harmonization should make it less costly for those who work in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133512
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575898
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Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions
Guvenen, Fatih; Guler, Bulent; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Search theory routinely assumes that decisions about the acceptance/rejection of job offers (and, hence, about labor market movements between jobs or across employment states) are made by individuals acting in isolation. In reality, the vast majority of workers are somewhat tied to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991934
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Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine
Fryer, Roland; Heaton, Paul Scott; Levitt, Steven; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
A wide range of social indicators turned sharply negative for Blacks in the late 1980s and began to rebound roughly a decade later. We explore whether the rise and fall of crack cocaine can explain these patterns. Absent a direct measure of crack cocaine%u2019s prevalence, we construct an index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829327
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The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century
Galenson, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The twentieth century was a time of rapid globalization for advanced art. Artists from a larger number of countries made important contributions than in earlier periods, and they did so in a larger number of places. Many important innovations also diffused more rapidly, and more widely, than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829529
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The Peter Principle: Promotions and Declining Productivity
Lazear, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829640
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Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees
Suen, Wing; Li, Hao; Rosen, Sherwin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830079