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The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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This paper theoretically investigates how an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can raise wages, generating new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor market with frictions in which firms can motivate...
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This paper theoretically investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal and self-enforcing agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of homogenous workers...
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Little is known about how workers update expectations about job search and earnings when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's unexpected announcement to build a manufacturing plant in Racine County. Exposure to positive news leads to...
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employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … unemployment spell suffer a (causal) penalty for doing so, relative to their peers who do not. The penalty, in terms of less … employment, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years. -- marginal employment …
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with shorter unemployment duration, modest higher re-employment probability as well as labor income after unemployment …, unemployed men benefit in several aspects: although unemployment duration remains unaffected, re-employment chances, labor income …
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