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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s
D’Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, … - 2008
period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …
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From SO2 to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading Programs in the United States
Kruger, Joseph - 2005
Cap-and-trade programs have become widely accepted for the control of conventional air pollution in the United States. However, there is still no political consensus to use these programs to address greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, in the wake of the success of the U.S. SO2 and NOx trading programs,...
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Three essays on U.S. electricity restructuring
Sergici, Sanem I. - 2008
The traditional structure of the electricity sector in the U.S. has been that of large vertically integrated companies with sole responsibility for distributing power to end users within a franchise area. The restructuring of this sector that has occurred in the past 10-20 years has profoundly...
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The interaction between house prices and loans for house purchase : the Spanish case
Gimeno Nogués, Ricardo; Martínez Carrascal, Carmen - 2006
Incluye bibliografía y anexos ; The aim of this paper is to analyse, using a vector error-correction model (VECM), the dynamic interaction between house prices and loans for house purchase in Spain. The results show that both variables are interdependent in the long run: loans for house...
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Banking competition, housing prices and macroeconomic stability
Andrés Domingo, Javier Angel; Arce Hortigüela, Óscar … - 2008
We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with an imperfectly competitive bank-loans market and collateral constraints that tie investors credit capacity to the value of their real estate holdings. Banks set optimal lending rates taking into account the effects of their price policies on...
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Does TFP drive housing prices? : a growth accounting exercise for four countries
Moro, Alessio; Nuño Barrau, Galo - 2011
Este documento analiza el papel de las diferencias en crecimiento de la PTF entre el sector de la construcción y la economía en su conjunto para explicar la evolución de los precios reales de la vivienda. Para ello, primero se comparan las sendas de precios de construcción y vivienda en...
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Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-25
1937
Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Employment & wages. 1936-12-12
1936
Boost in wages Potlatch forest workers to get 10 per cent gain Benefit to 2,300 toilers Increase comes at christmas …
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State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Employment & wages. 1937-10-09
1937
Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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