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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … the return to agglomeration to vary across those demographics, industry, occupation and metropolitan areas. We find that … black-majority firms, receive lower returns to agglomeration because such returns operate within race, and blacks have fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950796
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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan; Wilson, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575773
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Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration
Kaplan, Greg; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We analyze the secular decline in interstate migration in the United States between 1991 and 2011. Gross flows of people across states are about 10 times larger than net flows, yet have declined by around 50 percent over the past 20 years. We argue that the fall in migration is due to a decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821924
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885297
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Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts
Autor, David; Palmer, Christopher J.; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and the development of efficient housing policy. This paper measures the capitalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885298
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951032
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Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
Watson, Tara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements which allow state and local law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951153
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch
Haltiwanger, John; Weinberg, Daniel H.; Andersson, Fredrik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. The basic...
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