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Consumers and the Brain Drain : Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2021
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139
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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870441
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016203
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform
Bernecker, Andreas - 2015
investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less … concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016381
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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831220
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128216
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128227
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Income Taxation of U.S. Households : Basic Facts
Guner, Nezih - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128832
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Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed significantly not only to the rapidly shrinking earnings gap in the 1980s, but also to the...
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