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Give me your wired and your highly skilled: Measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders

Lin, Carl - 2011

employers and shareholders, particularly in those industries with high needs for skilled immigrants. The American … this bill and analyze whether and by how much its passage increased shareholders' profit. The empirical results show that … employers and shareholders in the top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive returns with the passage of the …

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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

employers and shareholders, particularly in those industries with high needs for skilled immigrants. The American … this bill and analyze whether and by how much its passage increased shareholders’ profit. The empirical results show that … employers and shareholders in the top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive returns with the passage of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294984

Investor protection and the value of shares: evidence from statutory rules governing variations of shareholders' class rights in Russia

Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their class rights. Based on a novel hand-collected dataset of dual class stock … significant effect of improved protection of preferred shareholders on the value of their shares. The result is robust to several …

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Decomposing excess returns in stochastic linear models

Lin, Carl - 2011

We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...

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Individual and corporate social responsibility

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the psychology and economics of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India

Dasgupta, Basab; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

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Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

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Hate in the Time of COVID-19: Racial Crimes against East Asians

Carr, Joel; James, Jonathan; Clifton-Sprigg, Joanna; … - 2022

We provide evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racial hate crime in England and Wales. Using various data sources, including unique data collected through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from UK police forces, a difference-in-difference and event study approaches, we find...

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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and...

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