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Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K

Milligan, Kevin - 2003

Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a more educated electorate enhances the quality of democracy. While some earlier studies document an association between schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to...

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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space

Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … manufacturing employment in the year of its country's manufacturing peak and the subsequent change in total employment, reflecting … in a significant number of cases, total employment fully recovered and even exceeded initial levels, despite the loss of …

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