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Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts
Autor, David; Palmer, Christopher J.; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and the development of efficient housing policy. This paper measures the capitalization of...
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950796
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The Agglomeration of Bankruptcy
Benmelech, Efraim; Bergman, Nittai; Milanez, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper identifies a new channel through which bankrupt firms impose negative externalities on non-bankrupt peers. The bankruptcy and liquidation of a retail chain weakens the economies of agglomeration in any given local area, reducing the attractiveness of retail centers for remaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796665
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Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions
Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first is that the decline in the workforce was not random, and that the average worker was of higher quality during the recession than in the preceding period. The second is that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969215
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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
Katz, Lawrence F.; Margo, Robert Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de … recent "polarization" of labor demand since the late 1980s. New archival evidence on wages suggests that the demand for high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969331
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969451
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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence for the US
Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force … even government sources making similar claims. These complaints about skills are driving much of the debate around labor … charges as well as other evidence about skills in the labor force. There is very little evidence consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887107
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887111
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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Hamermesh, Daniel; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Are workers in modern economies working "too hard"--would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950690
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More on Recent Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the United States
Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
geographically proximate and fails to control for changes in low-skill labor markets that are correlated with minimum wage increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950824