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A guide and advice for economists on the US junior academic job market : 2014 - 2015 edition
Cawley, John H. - 2014
This guide, updated for the 2014-15 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and provides links to internet resources. Topics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403574
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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …
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Designing disability insurance reforms: tightening eligibility rules or reducing benefits?
Haller, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2020
policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate … fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost reductions) of 2.0-2.5 for stricter DI eligibility rules and of 1.3-1.4 for … lower DI benefits. Stricter DI eligibility rules generate lower income losses (earnings + transfers), particularly at the …
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Universal credit and crime
D'Este, Rocco; Harvey, Alex - 2020
We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC rollout across constituencies using monthly data from 2010 to 2019 for England and Wales. We find UC...
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Economic theories of citizenship?
DeVoretz, Don J.; Irastorza, Nahikari - 2017
This paper explores the relationship of immigrant citizenship ascension and the effect on the naturalized citizen's economic outcomes in Europe and North America. We offer a unique model and empirical outcomes to define optimal waiting periods for immigrant ascension to citizenship by entry...
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A guide and advice for economists on the U.S. junior academic job market : 2016-2017 edition
Cawley, John H. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594154
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New evidence on cyclical variation in labor costs in the U.S.
Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2018
Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a broad measure of real labor costs including such benefit expenditures has become countercyclical during 1982-2014, contrary to the conventional view that labor costs are...
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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut
Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020
We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...
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The effect of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment insurance receipt : new evidence from a regression kink design in Missouri, 2003-2013
Card, David E.; Johnston, Andrew; Leung, Pauline; Mas, … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...
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