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Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality

Fletcher, Jason; Schwarz, Hans G.; Engelman, Michal; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A rich literature shows that early life conditions shape later life outcomes, including health and migration events. However, analyses of geographic disparities in mortality outcomes focus almost exclusively on contemporaneously measured geographic place (e.g., state of residence at death),...

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Can you Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

Agan, Amanda Y.; Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; Mas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted with the goal of improving employment opportunities for millions of individuals with records. We...

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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, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and Noncompetes

Gottfries, Axel; Jarosch, Gregor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do noncompete agreements between workers and firms affect wages and employment in equilibrium? We build a tractable framework of wage posting with on-the-job search and large employers that provides a natural laboratory to assess anti-competitive practices in the labor market. We...

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Within-Firm Pay Inequality and Productivity

Wallskog, Melanie; Bloom, Nicholas; Ohlmacher, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Combining confidential Census worker and firm data, we find three key results. First, employees at more productive firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for...

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The Influence of Occupational Licensing on Workforce Transitions to Retirement

Oh, Yun Taek; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

retirement transition has not been analyzed. In this study, we use the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program …

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Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation : Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation

Meyer, Bruce D.; Wyse, Angela; Meyer, Gillian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

population, including the first national estimates of income, employment, and safety net participation based on administrative … Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicare, Medicaid, Disability Insurance (DI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI … arise in the context of long-term, severe deprivation rather than large and sudden losses of income. People appear to …

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Incentive Pay and Social Returns to Worker Effort in Public Programs : Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program

Christensen, Peter; Francisco, Paul; Myers, Erica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

perform a field experiment to evaluate the impact of performance bonuses on the returns to spending in a large low-income …

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Finance and Climate Resilience : Evidence from the long 1950s US Drought

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramcharan, Rodney - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how the availability of credit shapes adaptation to a climatic shock, specifically, the long 1950s US drought. We find that bank lending, net immigration, and population growth decline sharply in drought exposed areas with limited initial access to bank finance. In contrast,...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...

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