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How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets : The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen M. - 2021
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …
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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment : Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Basile, Roberto - 2011
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....
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How Local are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
Manning, Alan - 2011
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
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The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions
Meschi, Elena F. - 2011
This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with....
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Overeducation and Local Labour Markets in Spain
Ramos, Raul - 2011
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of individual variables and some characteristics related to spatial mobility in regional labour markets on overeducation in Spain. With this aim, we use microdata from the Spanish Budget Family Survey to estimate a logit model for...
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There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia
Sinning, Mathias - 2011
This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about these effects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and find...
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