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Unkind roll of the dice : drivers of lottery crimes in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K. - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 16, pp. 1856-1866

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Casinos and political corruption in the United States : a Granger causality analysis

Walker, Douglas M.; Calcagno, Peter T. - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 34/36, pp. 4781-4795

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A review of regulatory theory and the U.S. casino industry

Calcagno, Peter T.; Walker, Douglas M. - In: The journal of gambling business and economics 10 (2015) 1, pp. 14-39

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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - 2012

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Immigrants and the U.S. wage distribution

Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2020

A large body of literature estimates the relative wage impacts of immigration on low- and high-skill natives, but it is unclear how these effects map onto changes of the wage distribution. I document the movement of foreign-born workers in the U.S. wage distribution, showing that, since 1980,...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Interregional spillovers and urban-rural disparity in U.S. employment growth

Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - 2010

A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth averaged 2.1 percent in urban counties during 1998-2007, compared with just 1 percent in rural counties. In this study, we examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the...

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The impact of legalized casino gambling on crime

Nichols, Mark W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2013

We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between … associated with casinos in some circumstances, but not others. Crime impact results are quite sensitive to data, sample periods …. Again, casinos are associated with a statistically significant increase in some circumstances but not in others, with …

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An Overview of Sports Betting Regulation in the United States

Humphreys, Brad R. - 2017

The United States employs an ad hoc, unconventional method of regulating sports betting, banning it almost everywhere while granting a monopoly to firms in a single state, Nevada. This approach encourages illegal sports betting markets, ignores negative externalities, and generates welfare...

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