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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
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The effects of Wal-Mart on local labor markets
Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen - 2007
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of Wal-Mart stores. We address the endogeneity problem using...
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How disasters affect local labor markets: the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
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How do very open economies absorb large immigration flows? recent evidence from Spanish regions
González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2008
In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school...
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Risk sharing and commuting among US federal states
Jüßen, Falko - 2008
Financial markets provide imperfect insurance of labor income risk. However, workers can partly insure against labor market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the business cycle in the neighborhood becomes a relevant...
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How hurricanes affect employment and wages in local labor markets
Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2008
This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the labor market. We find that earnings of the average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within...
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States
Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009
While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the skill and demographic composition of immigrants than...
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