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are available -- show the local income and wage tax rates have significant negative effects on city employment levels ….S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income … effects of taxes on city employment levels for New York City and Philadelphia -- the two cities for which employment series …
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income and wage tax rates have significant negative effects on city employment levels ….S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income … employment levels for New York City and Philadelphia the two cities for which employment series are available show the local …
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used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …
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metropolitan areas where income is higher away from the city center. We consider four different explanations for why city centers … areas with centralized poverty; (2) areas with centralized poverty had more employment concentration which led to faster …
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inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …
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There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
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This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
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assistance benefits reduce employment, and more suggestive evidence that they affect marital status and living arrangements. The …
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This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals …
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