smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …

likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local … sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor stores is significantly increased in jurisdictions where sales tax … rates increase. We also find that manufacturing employment is significantly lowered in these jurisdictions. These results …

among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could … with production costs would be worth at least half a billion dollars …

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …

This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms … after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with … penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we highlight three channels through which employment targets impact firms …

(employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …

professional employment among southern blacks. The large-scale desegregation of southern schools occurring after passage of the … 1964 Civil Rights Act represented a potential threat to this employment base, and this paper estimates how student … integration affected black teacher employment. Using newly assembled archival data from 781 southern school districts observed …