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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression : Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1919-1937
Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 1997
The severity of the Great Depression in the United States varied by region. Most notably compared with the rest of the country, the South Atlantic states experienced a milder contraction while the Mountain states suffered more severely. The impact of the contraction was more" uniform across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472525
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The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...
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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Levinson, Arik - 2007
Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes ("technology"); or (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465023
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How Much is Social Capital Worth?
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462628
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Trust and Social Collateral
Mobius, Markus - 2007
This paper builds a theory of informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, relationships between individuals generate social collateral that can be used to control moral hazard when agents interact in a borrowing relationship. We define trust between two agents as the maximum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465528
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The Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement : Evidence from School Finance Reforms
Asker, Erdal; Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A primary rationale for public provision of K-12 education and state financing of school spending is that education fosters civic engagement and the development of social capital. However, limited evidence exists on whether and how school spending affects civic engagement. Virtually all studies...
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Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2011
There seems to be a widespread belief among economists, policy-makers, and members of the media that the "confidence … augmented to include empirical measures of consumer or business confidence. We also estimate non-linear VAR specifications to … allow for differential impacts of government spending in "normal'' times versus recessions. In normal times confidence does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461594
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458936
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People and Machines : A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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