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This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, İmrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error...
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Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …
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I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …
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We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
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We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
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We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …
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, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
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