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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - 2014
investigates this effect empirically using data on California municipalities. For various reasons, a simple correlation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352254
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Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job … populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the …
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Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie - 2018
upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816596
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
investigates this effect empirically using data on California municipalities. For various reasons, a simple correlation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884184
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The relationship between the housing & labor market crises and doubling-up: An MSA-level analysis, 2005-2010
Rogers, William H.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2013
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. What is less clear is what happened at the subnational level. This study reports on: 1) how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293109
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Just the facts, ma'am: Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293246
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307364
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307367
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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection
Chugh, Sanjay K.; Merkl, Christian - 2015
This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345350
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Gurcihan Yunculer, H. Burcu; Torun, … - 2015
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey....
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