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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119210
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The effects of unemployment on health, hospitalizations, and mortality - evidence from administrative data
Vodopivec, Matija; Laporšek, Suzana; Stare, Janez; … - 2021
Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative features. First, it utilizes a novel "double proof" approach of addressing the reverse causality that tracks only healthy individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517561
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Internet job search and unemployment durations
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414148
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Modelling the time on unemployment insurance benefits
Bijwaard, Govert (contributor) - 2007
A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of a model based on the time till re …) Proportional Hazard model to account for an upper bound on the duration. We use a modified mover-stayer model to this end and … unemployment duration. We also derive the expected UI-benefit costs implied by the model for some typical unemployed individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591472
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Estimating the effects of length of exposure to a training program : the case of job corps
Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2007
Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The "treatment" is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003601808
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Is internet job search still ineffective?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Mansour, Hani - 2011
While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn and Skuterud's (2004) study - which found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380411
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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability : evidence from the 2006-2008 national survey of family growth
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - 2011
One of the most salient demographic trends in the U.S. landscape in recent decades has been the pronounced increase in age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability using data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380415
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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012
duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530289
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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments
Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Lewis, William P. - 2012
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, fiscal and demographic factors, we also control for the state tax and expenditure limitations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534888