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We examine racial discrimination in the New Deal by examining access to work relief. The Federal Government prohibited racial discrimination in work relief programs. However, eligibility was determined by local and state administrators. We estimate Black-white gaps in work relief access...
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Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
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, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …
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data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …
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. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …
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innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …
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We study the employment and output effects of the short-time work (STW) policy in Germany between 2009 and 2010. This …
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We propose a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of government spending on the economy. We use the fact that a large number of federal spending programs depend on local population levels. Every ten years, the Census provides a count of local populations....
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States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
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