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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Leigh, Andrew - 2022

Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...

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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...

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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The COVID Motherhood Penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2022

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics : TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Jungmittag, Andre - 2017

. Time series data analysis for Germany indicates additionally that FDI induced higher innovation dynamics will raise output … real income gain of nearly 2% should be expected for Germany (and the EU): considerably higher than what the official TTIP …

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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration

Altangerel, Khulan - 2017

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanctioning employers who hired unauthorized immigrants. Our paper investigates how the...

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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010

In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...

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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...

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