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Good understanding on the human capital externalities is important for both policy makers and social science researchers. Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social returns to education may exceed the private returns. In this paper, using the longitudinal data from China...
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We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...
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We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo …-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and … on workers displaced during a mass layoff. Conditional on finding a new job, workers' commuting distance and commuting …
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observed wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers in Canada is attributable to departures from their potential wage … significant part of the wage gap between immigrants and native-born workers is not driven by worker and employer imperfect …
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This paper examines whether former foreign MNE workers help domestic startup firms succeed. I find evidence consistent … with the idea that, as founding workers, former MNE workers positively contribute to startup outcomes. However, this … wages of workers present from startup increase after former MNE workers join domestic firms. Likewise, there is no …
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well-being outcomes collected from 621 full-time workers assessed before (November, 2019 - February, 2020) and during (May …
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safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses and insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks to steady …
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replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …-averse workers, endogenous hiring and separation, and unobservable search effort we first show how to decentralize the constrained …- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of …
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adoption. The results of the paper challenge the popular, but controversial, view that blames generous unemployment insurance …The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in … change. The proposed framework offers a novel explanation for the observed divergence of unemployment rates across economies …
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