the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … larger lobbying expenditures and higher in sectors where labor unions are more important …

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

artifact of policy design: When the government restricts foreign labor inflows and allocates H- 1B status by random lottery, it …. This outsourcing behavior further exacerbates total search costs and lottery externalities, resulting in an annual economic …

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using … annual hours of work do not respond to lottery wins, whilst female hours of work decrease in response to current and past … lottery wins. Specifically, current female annual hours of work decrease by about 26 hours if the partner has won the lottery …

in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those …

This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State … Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery prize winners reduce their hours of work but … they are not very likely to withdraw from the labor force. We also find that the effects of lottery prizes last for several …