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Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

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Matching in cities

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Moretti, Enrico; … - 2019

-city assortative matching observed between 1985 and 2014 increased aggregate labor earnings in Germany by 2.1%, or 31.32 billion euros … unchanged, and equalize within-city assortative matching geographical wage inequality in Germany would decrease significantly …

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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014

industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international … firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

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Do universities improve local economic resilience?

Howard, Greg; Weinstein, Russell; Yang, Yuhao - 2021

We use a novel identification strategy to investigate whether regional universities make their local economies more resilient to adverse economic shocks. Our strategy is based on state governments assigning normal schools (to train teachers) and insane asylums to counties between 1830 and 1930....

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Who benefits from local oil and gas employment? : labor market composition in the oil and gas industry in Texas

Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across …

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Industry fluctuations and college major choices : evidence from an energy boom and bust

Han, Luyi; Winters, John V. - 2019

This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and geology, two majors closely related to the energy industry. We find strong evidence that the energy...

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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

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Problem on the plains: college earnings premiums in small metropolitan areas

Winters, John V. - 2020

I use the American Community Survey to examine how college earnings premiums differ across small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. I document that the West North Central Division (Plains Region) has especially low average college earnings premiums. Controlling for observable MSA...

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Minimum wages and restaurant employment for teens and adults in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas

Winters, John V. - 2022

induce labor-labor substitution. However, this pattern is driven by metropolitan areas residents. The estimated coefficient …

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Business cycle turning points and local labour markets

Taylor, Karl; Bhadury, Soumya; Binner, Jane M.; Mandal, … - 2024

In this paper we consider the predictors of the business cycle in Great Britain, where the claimant count and unemployment rate are found to be key indicators associated with turning points. Next, we consider at a micro-economic level, using disaggregated local authority level data, a number of...

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