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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271483
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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777512
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774298
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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of …This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the … immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives. The paper then turns to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804663
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using matched employer-employee data at the establishment level, we measure the importance of these network effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039682
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The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and population characteristics -- particularly for black residents -- but it is widely recognized that this correlation may not be causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580538
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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969321
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Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition
Bagues, Manuel F.; Labini, Mauro Sylos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper evaluates the impact of the availability of electronic labor markets on the university-to-work transition. In particular, we analyze the effect of the intermediation activity carried on by the inter-university consortium, AlmaLaurea, on graduates' labor market outcomes. The different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085356
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James; Pugatch, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity and measurement error in wages. Using the model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223326