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Job mobility in Europe, Japan and the US

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2010

mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US … uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …

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The effect of community-level socio-economic conditions on threatening racial encounters

Antecol, Heather (contributor); … - 2008

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders. We use unique data for a sample of active-duty Army personnel...

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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation

Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009

Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Migration creation, diversion, and retention : new deal grants and migration ; 1935 - 1940

Sorensen, Todd A.; Fishback, Price Van Meter; Allen, Samuel - 2007

During the 1930s the federal government embarked upon an ambitious series of grant programs designed to counteract the Great Depression. Public works and relief programs combated unemployment by hiring workers and building social overhead capital while the Agricultural Adjustment Administration...

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European vs. American hours worked : assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...

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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …

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What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates?

Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - 2009

hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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