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The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data from Detroit's welfare-to-work program, we apply the...
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
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Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry
Krishna, Kala; Somanathan, Rohini; Das, Sanghamitra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in output with minimal changes in factors of production,...
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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity
Razin, Assaf; Wahba, Jackline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper revisits the magnet hypothesis and investigates the impact of the welfare generosity on the difference between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a...
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …
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Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
Gittleman, Maury; Klee, Mark A.; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing a new topical module to the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
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Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers
Neumark, David; Brueckner, Jan K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet,...
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