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"And yet, it moves" : intergenerational mobility in Italy
Acciari, Paolo; Polo, Alberto; Violante, Giovanni L. - 2019
We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998481
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Marketmaking middlemen
Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526728
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Primum vivere... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683015
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Is shale development drilling holes in the human capital pipeline?
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2016
Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the states of Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The three states examined are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449861
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Rates of return to degrees across British regions
O'Leary, Nigel (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006
Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274241
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Mind the gap : unemployment in the new EU regions
Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor);  … - 2005
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764230
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Economic geography of contagion: a study on COVID-19 outbreak in India
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2021
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it … regional inequality in the degree of economic activity, we find evidence in support of our hypothesis. Further, we find that … regions with higher nightlight inequality also experience higher spread of Covid-19 only when lockdown measures have been …
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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198844
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The isolated States of America : home state bias, state identity, and the impact of state borders on mobility
Wilson, Riley - 2022
I document a new empirical pattern of internal mobility in the United States. Namely, county-to-county migration and commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171853
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People, places and public policy : some simple welfare economics of local economic development programs
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212999