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The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession left the U.S. economy in an injured state. In 2013, output was 13 percent below its trend path from 1990 through 2007. Part of this shortfall--2.2 percentage points out of the 13--was the result of lingering slackness in the labor market in the...
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Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper reconsiders this question by specifying an open-economy monetary model encompassing a 'production relocation externality,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from...
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing …
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This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence...
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Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
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The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the perpetrators. This paper aims to fill that gap by examining the economic costs of committing suicide terror attacks. Using data covering the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists...
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employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …
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This paper shows that firms spread the adverse impacts of local employment shocks across regions through their internal … establishment-level employment responds strongly to employment shocks in other regions in which the firm has establishments …. Consistent with theory, the elasticity of establishment-level employment with respect to shocks in other regions is increasing …
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This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...
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professional employment among southern blacks. The large-scale desegregation of southern schools occurring after passage of the … 1964 Civil Rights Act represented a potential threat to this employment base, and this paper estimates how student … integration affected black teacher employment. Using newly assembled archival data from 781 southern school districts observed …
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