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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019

This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016

system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …

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Gender differences in cooperative environments? : evidence from the U.S. congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022

This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...

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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

der Arbeit web site …

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Factor shares, the price markup, and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor

Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla i … - 2011

In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...

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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...

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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more … employees compared to contractors. This result, robust to a number of checks, highlights the role of labour regulations as an … additional driver of more flexible labour formats. …

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Wage dispersion and search behavior

Hall, Robert Ernest; Müller, Andreas - 2015

We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job-seekers made. From the data and the model, we identify the distributions of four key variables:...

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