A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...

"Dieser Beitrag untersucht zuerst die Entwicklung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1974. Er behandelt hauptsächlich Fragen der Förderung der beruflichen Bildung, die Zumutbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen, die den Arbeitslosen durch die Arbeitsämter angeboten werden,...

Using the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data from the United States Census Bureau, I compute firm-level measures of labor market (monopsony) power. To generate these measures, I extend the dynamic model proposed by Manning (2003) and estimate the labor supply elasticity facing...

"Dieser Beitrag untersucht zuerst die Entwicklung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1974. Er behandelt hauptsächlich Fragen der Förderung der beruflichen Bildung, die Zumutbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen, die den Arbeitslosen durch die Arbeitsämter angeboten werden,...

The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the conflict emphasizes the determining role of the domestic politics of the EU and the United States....

In this study we examine the importance of assimilation and ethnic enclave residence for smoking outcomes among United States immigrants. We draw data on over 140,000 immigrants from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplements between 1995 and 2011. Several patterns emerge from our...

We examine the extent to which assimilation and residential ethnic enclaves are associated with immigrant access to smoking-related fringe benefits. In particular, we consider access to office smoking bans and employer-sponsored smoking cessation programs. These worksite characteristics are...