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the division of labor, may hinder the ability of Brazil's northern cities to offer more opportunities for escaping poverty …
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the introduction of the minimum tax rate; and how the introduction of the minimum tax rate affected tax competition …
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Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non … effects are due to increased competition for local resources …
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The primary motivation behind quantitative modeling in international trade and many other fields is to shed light on the economic consequences of policy changes. To help assess and potentially strengthen the credibility of such quantitative predictions we introduce an IV-based goodness-of-fit...
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How do political preferences shape transportation policy? We study this question in the context of California's High-Speed Rail (CHSR). Combining geographic data on votes in a referendum on the CHSR with a model of its expected economic benefits, we estimate the weight of economic and...
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Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....
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We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the United States. There are long-standing worker shortages in the U.S. healthcare industry, pre-dating the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on shortages...
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market work for both genders. In later stages, structural transformation reallocates labor from manufacturing into services …, while marketization reallocates labor from home to market services. Given gender comparative advantages, the first channel …
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This paper builds, identifies and estimates a model of the labor market that features strategic interactions in wage … of labor demand and supply parameters and estimate them using matched employer-employee data from Denmark. Using our …
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We incorporate a general model of frictions into the bunching-based elasticity estimator. This model relies on fewer parameters than the conventional approach, replacing bunching window bounds with a single "lumpiness parameter," while matching rich observed bunching patterns such as...
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