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Politics At Work
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056145
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The Real Effects of Banking the Poor : Evidence from Brazil
Fonseca, Julia; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
wages, especially for cities initially in banking deserts. However, these gains are not shared equally. Instead, they … increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210085
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210098
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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market
Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247930
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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers …. Estimated at the national level, I show that minimum wages---together with supply and demand---play a central role in shaping … document the dynamic impact of the minimum wage over the full wage distribution: on impact, wages rise only for the lowest …
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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Micro vs Macro Labor Supply Elasticities : The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key contention in economics is the discrepancy between micro and macro elasticities of labor supply with respect to marginal tax rates. We revisit this question, focusing on the role of dynamic returns to effort among top earners. We develop a new model of earnings responses to taxes in the...
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Wage and Earnings Inequality Between and Within Occupations : The Role of Labor Supply
Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Kambourov, Gueorgui; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, wages, and earnings within and across occupations …
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Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics : Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 1996
-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …
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