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Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico, strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United States,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085046
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy … between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax system in which entrepreneurial profits and labor income must be … properties disappear when a differential tax treatment of profits and labor income is possible. In this case, redistribution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785586
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Spatial Equilibrium with Unemployment and Wage Bargaining: Theory and Estimation
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper, we present a spatial equilibrium model where search frictions hinder the immediate reallocation of workers both within and across local labour markets. Because of the frictions, firms and workers find themselves in bilateral monopoly positions when determining wages. Although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785621
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Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks
Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718046
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large
Rogerson, Richard; Wright, Randall; Visschers, Lodewijk P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Shimer's calibrated version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model generates unemployment fluctuates much smaller than the data. Hagedorn and Manovskii present an alternative calibration that yields fluctuations consistent with the data, but this has been challenged by Costain and Reiter, who say it...
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Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Christiano, Lawrence; Walentin, Karl; Trabandt, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our … model has the property that people searching for jobs are better off if they find a job than if they do not (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635917
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636925
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Search and Rest Unemployment
Shimer, Robert; Alvarez, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper extends Lucas and Prescott's (1974) search model to develop a notion of rest unemployment. The economy consists of a continuum of labor markets, each of which produces a heterogeneous good. There is a constant returns to scale production technology in each labor market, but labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714696
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How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?
Stevens, Ann Huff; Chan, Sewin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We use the Health and Retirement Study to examine the effects of job loss on factors affecting retirement incentives, including earnings, assets and pensions. We then estimate models of the retirement decision, which take into account the incentive to retire and any additional effects of...
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