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Racial heterogeneity in the U.S. structural transformation and regional convergence
Kim, Minki; Lee, Munseob - 2023
Structural transformation and regional convergence in U.S. income have been long-standing trends. Caselli and Coleman (2001) discovered that 60% of regional convergence between the U.S. South and North from 1940 to 1990 is due to structural transformation. Our replication confirms these robust...
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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...
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries
Lee, Eddy (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2006
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …, giving raise to concentration and marginalisation phenomena; 2) increasing trade and FDI do not emerge as the main culprits …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Understanding the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants
Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias, Ferran - 2017
This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo (2011)). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...
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Selective migration, occupational choice, and the wage returns to college majors
Ransom, Tyler - 2020
I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...
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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson obtain a larger price cut in the Spanish housing market?
Nicodemo, Catia; Raya, Josep Maria - 2018
Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...
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