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The steam engine is widely regarded as the icon of the Industrial Revolution and a prime example of a ‘General Purpose Technology,’ and yet its contribution to growth is far from transparent. This Paper examines the role that a particular innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine,...
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We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...
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We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect obtained as a...
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How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation … relaxation of credit standards can either increase or decrease segregation, depending on racial income gaps and on races …-2006 mortgage credit boom on the level of school segregation. Census tract racial composition is strongly correlated with the racial …
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. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation …
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In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes … decisions (whether to hire a state or a private school graduate). We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for segregation …
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The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in U.S. inner cities experience poor labour-market outcomes because they are disconnected from suburban job opportunities. This assumption gave rise to an abundant empirical literature, which confirmed this...
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This paper explores the effect of racial segregation on public school expenditure in US metropolitan areas and school … racial groups needs to be taken into account. Greater segregation is associated with more homogeneity in some subareas and …. For given fragmentation, the extent of segregation conveys information on households’ possibility to sort into relatively …
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We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...
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us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal … is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality. …
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