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Are Immigrants the Best and Brightest U.S. Engineers?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2014
Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding US dominance in S&E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers: (1) The U.S....
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2010
Excess body weight or body fat hinders performance of military duties. As a result, the U.S. military has weight-for-height and percent body fat standards for enlistment. This paper estimates the number and percent of military-age civilians who meet, and do not meet, the current active duty...
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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
T. Howell, Sabrina; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2022
There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is whether to tightly specify the innovations they seek (a “Conventional” approach) or to allow firms to suggest ideas (an “Open” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in...
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Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract : Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During Wwii
Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - 2023
This paper documents several new facts about the relationship between discrimination and political exclusion and the motivation to fight in wartime. The Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for...
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Policy-Instrument Choice and Benefit Estimates for Climate-Change Policy in the United States
Kotchen, Matthew J.; Boyle, Kevin J; Leiserowitz, Anthony - 2021
This paper provides the first willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates in support of a national climate-change policy that are comparable with the costs of actual legislative efforts in the U.S. Congress. Based on a survey of 2,034 American adults, we find that households are, on average, willing to...
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The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules : Evidence from U.S. States
Alesina, Alberto F.; Bayoumi, Tamim - 2022
This paper shows that in American states balanced budget rules are effective in enforcing fiscal discipline but they have no costs in terms of increased output variability. More specifically, we show that tighter fiscal rules are associated with larger average surplus and lower cyclical...
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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022
In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...
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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2014
While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2009
engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the … market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on the allocation of engineers across a large fraction of Swedish … space and each firm has its own age-wage profile. I find that a majority of engineers have moderately high switching costs …
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