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Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico, strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United States,...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

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Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large

Rogerson, Richard; Wright, Randall; Visschers, Lodewijk P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Shimer's calibrated version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model generates unemployment fluctuates much smaller than the data. Hagedorn and Manovskii present an alternative calibration that yields fluctuations consistent with the data, but this has been challenged by Costain and Reiter, who say it...

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Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Christiano, Lawrence; Walentin, Karl; Trabandt, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our model has the property that people searching for...

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...

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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry

Scheuer, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...

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Spatial Equilibrium with Unemployment and Wage Bargaining: Theory and Estimation

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In this paper, we present a spatial equilibrium model where search frictions hinder the immediate reallocation of workers both within and across local labour markets. Because of the frictions, firms and workers find themselves in bilateral monopoly positions when determining wages. Although...

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Search and Rest Unemployment

Shimer, Robert; Alvarez, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper extends Lucas and Prescott's (1974) search model to develop a notion of rest unemployment. The economy consists of a continuum of labor markets, each of which produces a heterogeneous good. There is a constant returns to scale production technology in each labor market, but labor...

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Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks

Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using data drawn from the 1960-2000 U.S. Censuses, we find a strong … correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …

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How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?

Stevens, Ann Huff; Chan, Sewin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We use the Health and Retirement Study to examine the effects of job loss on factors affecting retirement incentives, including earnings, assets and pensions. We then estimate models of the retirement decision, which take into account the incentive to retire and any additional effects of...

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