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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children’s living circumstances during...

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The World's Rust Belts: The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Encourage Gambling? Evidence from the Chinese Welfare Lottery Market

Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; de Haan, Jakob - 2023

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a … data on lottery sales in Chinese provinces to estimate the short- and long-run effect of EPU on gambling. Our results … suggest that EPU has a significant positive effect on gambling in the short run. In addition, we find that this positive …

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Do Commuting Subsidies Drive Workers to Better Firms?

Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024

An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job opportunities in a way that facilitates a better job match quality. Variations in wages and initial commuting distances, combined with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula...

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DACA, Mobility Investments, and Economic Outcomes of Immigrants and Natives

Kiser, Jimena Villanueva; Wilson, Riley - 2024

Exploiting variation created by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we document the effects of immigrant legalization on mobility investments and economic outcomes. DACA increased both geographic and job mobility of young immigrants, leading them to high paying labor markets and...

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Social Mobility in Germany

Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...

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Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs

Lake, James; Liu, Ding - 2022

President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2017

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...

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Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021

We analyze the welfare implications of property taxation. Using a sufficient statistics approach, we show that the tax incidence depends on how housing prices, labor and other types of incomes as well as public services respond to property tax changes. Empirically, we exploit the German...

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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...

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