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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285998
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269433
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286879
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269689
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267353
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289840
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On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019
We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and distributed-lag models are numerically identical leading to the same parameter estimates after correct reparametrization. Second, binning of effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984639
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Partisan impacts on the economy: evidence from prediction markets and close elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267661
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Diagnosing discrimination: stock returns and CEO gender
Wolfers, Justin - 2006
A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269221