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Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity
Neumark, David (contributor) - 2008
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656934
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What mean impacts miss : distributional effects of welfare reform experiments
Bitler, Marianne (contributor);  … - 2005
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …
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The (un)importance of inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
Transfers from parents - either in the form of gifts or inheritances - have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income,...
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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635285
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
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Not so lucky any more : CEO compensation in financially distressed firms
Kang, Qiang (contributor); Mitnik, Oscar A. (contributor) - 2008
There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...
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The long-term effects of youth unemployment
Mroz, Thomas A.; Savage, Timothy H. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 41 (2006) 2, pp. 259-293
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The marriage earnings premium as a distributed fixed effect
Dougherty, Christopher R. S. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 41 (2006) 2, pp. 433-443
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