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Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle

Foote, Christopher Lee; Ryan, Richard W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long run has suffered the most from automation and international trade. How might long-run occupational polarization be related to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find...

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Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations

Cooper, Russell; Gong, Guan; Yan, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing compensation. We estimate a model of costly labor...

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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science) database spanning all sciences, technologies, and high-tech industries …

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...

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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...

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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment:Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

transition from a wage and salary job to self-employment. We find that young men's own financial assets exert a statistically … significant, but quantitatively modest effect on the transition to self-employment. In contrast, the capital of parents exerts a …

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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century

MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....

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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...

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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations

Bleakley, Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win...

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