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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks Through Firms’ Internal Networks

Giroud, Xavier - 2016

's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms …-level employment with respect to house prices in other counties in which the firm has establishments. At the same time, establishments …

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The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of...

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The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices : Business Cycle and Policy Implications

Coibion, Olivier - 2012

We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers ("effective" prices) in a dataset containing prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers across a variety of U.S. metropolitan areas. Both the frequency and size of sales fall when local...

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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

Heutel, Garth - 2013

Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but little analysis has been conducted investigating the role of environmental risks as potential mechanisms for this relationship. We investigate the contribution of air pollution...

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Economic Shocks and Crime : Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

force attachment searching for employment after being subject to a mass layoff - thereby focusing on a group of job …

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2021

emigrants are disproportionately young and skilled, and that individuals suffering a layoff or non-employment spell are also …

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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

Autor, David H. - 2016

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections and the 2000, 2008, and 2016 presidential elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and...

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The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

Di Maggio, Marco - 2016

one standard deviation increase in generosity attenuates the effect of adverse shocks on employment growth by 7% and on …

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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