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We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
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international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants … abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …
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emergency declaration in the United States. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts …
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emergency declaration in the United States. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts …
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Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ideology. We focus on the job market for reporters, where the agents negotiate over the...
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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
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In this paper, we investigate the power of migration as a mechanism in the transmission of social norms, taking Mali … migration. We use an original household-level database coupled with census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in … variable approach to control for the endogeneity of migration and return decisions, we show that return migrants have a …
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’ selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …
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