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We study market rents in the neighborhood of asylum seeker hosting centers. Our empirical setting exploits the quasi-random opening of centers and spatial allocation of asylum seekers in Switzerland. Rents within 0.7km of an active center are found on average to be 3.8% lower than rents in the...
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Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare losses found in …-experimental empirical analysis with a one-sided housing market model where households act as both buyers and sellers. Using a Finnish tax … household mobility. We calibrate our theoretical model to match the mobility rates in our data and our quasi …
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.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats...
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lending by race. We document that even after controlling for a firm’s zip code, industry, loan size, PPP approval date, and …
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This paper aims at an improved understanding of the relationship between monetary policy and racial inequality. We investigate the distributional effects of monetary policy in a unified framework, linking monetary policy shocks both to earnings and wealth differentials between black and white...
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Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...
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On the 22nd of February 2011, much of the residential housing stock in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was … spatial reordering of the housing market in the city. We find a negative correlation between insurance payouts and house … which aims to improve on a standard hedonic model, and identify the dynamics of the housing market in the city, and three …
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