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Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention : A Behavioral Economic Analysis

Silverman, Kenneth - 1998

Epidemiological data and experimental research in the fields of operant conditioning and behavioral economics suggest that employment may be useful in the treatment of drug abuse. The conditions under which employment should decrease drug use depends on a range of environmental contextual...

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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022

We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational … not yet having detectable aggregate labor market consequences …

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Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good …

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Matching Capital and Labor

Berk, Jonathan B. - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms

Giroud, Xavier - 2012

We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...

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Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies

Aguiar, Mark A. - 2011

. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital … income may be non-zero, reversing the standard prediction of the Ramsey tax literature. The zero labor tax is an optimal long … sovereign debt constraints. The front loading of labor taxes allows the economy to build a large (aggregate) debt position in …

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Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity

Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong; Zhu, Brooklynn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...

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