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Agarwal, Sumit - 2017

We provide the first cross-sectoral description of local consumption markets. Detailed credit card data show consumers have limited mobility and manage the spatial dimension of their transactions. In more frequently purchased sectors, expenditure declines faster with distance; further, the spatial...

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Housing Dynamics : Theory Behind Empirics

Wang, Ping; Xie, Danyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

To fill the knowledge gap that previous studies ignore either housing or internal urban structure and to enable better fit with important stylized facts, we construct a two-sector optimal growth model of housing where housing is produced by land and housing structure/household durables. We...

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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark

Agersnap, Ole - 2019

Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for …

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Self-Selection of Emigrants : Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

Borjas, George J. - 2015

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014

experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of nutrients essential for fetal development. Specifically, we use … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …

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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market …

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The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s : Explanations and Impacts

Card, David - 2005

Mexican immigrants were historically clustered in a few cities, mainly in California and Texas. During the past 15 years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes and consequences of the widening geographic diffusion of...

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Immigrant Distribution in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration

Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Immigrant distribution--the geographic dispersion of immigrants in the destination country--was a major issue in the United States in the late Age of Mass Migration. Policy debates were influenced by the widely held view that the new immigrants were generally less geographically mobile within...

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …

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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices

Kotlikoff, Laurence - 1991

Locational choice is one of the fundamental exercises of consumer sovereignty. When regions (or localities within regions) specify different tax rates or supply different amounts of public goods, they distort individuals' location choices. This paper models and measures for the U.S. and New...

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