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The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry growth rates. We show that the typical use of a Bartik instrument assumes a pooled exposure research design, where the shares measure differential exposure to common shocks, and identification is based on...
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, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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We study business cycle fluctuations in heterogeneous-agent general equilibrium models that feature both intensive and extensive margins of labor supply. A nonconvexity in the mapping between time devoted to work and labor services combined with idiosyncratic shocks generates operative extensive...
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Existing research on the static effects of the manipulation of welfare program benefit parameters on labor supply has allowed only restrictive forms of heterogeneity in preferences. Yet preference heterogeneity implies that the marginal effects of welfare reforms on labor supply may differ in...
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Hours, employment, and income taxes are economically distinct, and all three are either introduced or expanded by the … direction. A conservative estimate of the law's average employment rate impact is negative three percent. The ACA's tax wedges … explicit full-time employment taxes …
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …
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This paper examines the employment effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC). We use a unique dataset, created by … EITC on employment.The first test is based on the intuition that if the EITC alters employment, all else being equal …, employment rates for two-or-more child families should grow relative to the employment rates of one-child families, as credit …
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
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meaningful reductions in labor supply measured in terms of employment-to-population ratios, hours worked, and earnings. We also …
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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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