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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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Despite the Founding Fathers' careful planning, the reason for the public's lack of confidence in Congress is that elections, like the institutional checks and balances of federalism and separation of powers, are necessary but not sufficient to ensure that Congress acts in the best interests of...
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The perceived increase in corporate political influence has raised concerns that corporations advance policies that benefit capital and harm labor. We examine whether money in politics harms labor using the surprise Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC (2010), which rendered bans on...
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We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...
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unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions …
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, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
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, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
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welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment insurance but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our approach is intuitive …
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macroeconomic factors - including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system - as well as … individual-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset … for workers who move from unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German …
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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 commuting time. Using German employee-employer...
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