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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013

economic activity, along with the wages, employment, and industry mix of communities. These programs are widespread in the U …

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter A.; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias Moreno, Ferran - 2017

This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo (2011)). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...

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Varying Youth Cohort Effects on Regional Labour Market Outcomes in Germany

de Graaff, Thomas; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by −0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …

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"And Yet, It Moves": Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo; Polo, Alberto; Violante, Giovanni L. - 2019

We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...

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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Nicodemo, Catia; Raya, Josep M. - 2018

Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...

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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2003

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting?) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...

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Rates of return to degrees across British regions

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2006

Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...

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Mind the gap: unemployment in the new EU regions

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2005

The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...

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Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2016

Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the states of Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The three states examined are...

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