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This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's...
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....
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In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression …
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We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types’ which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is …
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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …
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