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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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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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The distributional impact of labour market reforms : a model-based assessment
Röger, Werner; Varga, Janos; Veld, Jan in 't; Vogel, Lukas - 2019 - This version: 16 October 2019
This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...
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The distribution of talent and the pattern and consequences of international trade
Grossman, Gene M. - 2002
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410329
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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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Self-correcting mechanisms in public procurement : why award and contract should be separated
Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - 2000
In public procurement a temporal separation of award and actual contracting can frequently be observed. In this paper we give an explanation for this institutional setting. For incomplete procurement contracts we show that such a separation may increase efficiency. We show that efficiency can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781579
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Demographic change and regional labour markets : the case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate (contributor); Pohl, Carsten (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712522
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Regional origins of employment volatility : evidence from German states
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711846
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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024
We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...
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