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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
2018, high, medium and low-income host countries and different types of forced migrants. Results refer to outcomes related … decreases strongly associated with the short-term, middle-income countries, females, young and informal workers. Food and rent …
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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects on duration outcomes under censoring, selection, and noncompliance
Blanco, German; Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos; … - 2018
We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp bounds for average and quantile treatment effects addressing three pervasive problems simultaneously:...
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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions
Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2021 - This draft October 4, 2021
Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product. Much research has been conducted on government spending and its aggregate effects, but evidence is scarce at the micro-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of...
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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Will the remote work revolution undermine progressive state income taxes?
Agrawal, David R.; Stark, Kirk J. - 2022
firms within the state? May a state impose income taxes on nonresident employees only to the extent they are physically … working within the state? Does state taxing power extend to all income derived from in-state firms, including wages paid to … state income taxes. Standard sourcing rules attribute wage income to the employee's physical location. In the presence of …
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Does relative age affect speed and quality of transition from school to work?
Fumarco, Luca; Vandromme, Alessandro; Halewyck, Levi; … - 2022
student jobs. The final mediator is particularly notable as no earlier studies examined relative age effects on student … student jobs. The final mediator is particularly notable as no earlier studies examined relative age effects on student …
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Unemploymentand health : a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...
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