geography) on employment growth and poverty change in US counties before and after the Great Recession. It finds that the … particular, this measure is associated with employment growth in under-performing counties suggesting that removing barriers to …

This paper provides evidence for a causal effect of equity prices on corporate investment and employment. We use fire …. Firms whose stocks are most underpriced have considerably lower investment and employment than industry peers not subject to … financially constrained firms. market inefficiency ; fire sales ; mutual funds ; investment ; employment …