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US Interstate Underground Trade Flow : A Gravity Model Approach
Wiseman, Travis - 2016
In this paper we model interstate trade in US shadow economies using a traditional gravity model, updated to control for factors that encourage (discourage) underground exchange among formal sector trading partners. Using data on interstate trade flow from the US Census Bureau, and state-level...
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U.S. Shadow Economies, Corruption, and Entrepreneurship : State-Level Spatial Relations
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
This paper offers a new theory of the corruption-shadow economy relationship: one that defines it as either collusive – i.e., crony – or non-collusive. Using new estimates of state-level shadow economy size, and data on corruption convictions of U.S. public officials for the 48 contiguous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034061
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Trump digs votes : the effect of Trump's coal campaign on the presidential ballot in 2016
Steinbrunner, Philipp; Di Giacomo, Marina; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2024
In this paper, we investigate the effect of Donald Trump's campaign for coal during his successful race for the White … Party shares in coal counties in 2016 relative to other presidential election years. Then, we use a spatial Durbin Error … model to estimate the impact of coal production on the Republicans' vote share in the US Presidential Election of 2016 at …
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Trump digs votes : the effect of Trump's coal campaign on the presidential ballot in 2016
Di Giacomo, Marina; Nagl, Wolfgang; Steinbrunner, Philipp - 2022
In this paper we investigate the effect of Donald Trump's campaign for coal in his successful race for the White House … in 2016. Using a spatial Durbin model we estimate the effect of coal production on the Republicans vote share in the US … between Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 as the dependent variable. The positive effect of coal production on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266083
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Transition with heterogeneous labor
Balla, Katalin (contributor); Köllő, János (contributor);  … - 2006
the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed. Viability is a function of the speed of job destruction and the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of … destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …
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What Is Holding Back the Development of Comprehensive Businesses Services in US Credit Unions?
Szymanski, Adam - 2019
The credit union movement has experienced rapid growth across the United States in recent years. After the financial crisis of 2007-2008, US credit unions emerged more resolutely as trusted financial partners, able to maintain lending during the credit crunch and offering better loan and deposit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897766
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Combating the Global Financial Crisis with Aggressive Expansionary Monetary Policy : Same Medicine, Different Outcomes in China, UK and USA
Zhang, Wei - 2010
In 2008-2009, the US and the UK undertook quantitative easing to drive interest rates to near zero to combat the Global Financial Crisis, and China increased the growth rate of base money slightly. The resulting credit growth was very slight in US and UK but over 100% in China. The US and UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143005
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312945
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Persistent inter‐industry wage differences : rent sharing and opportunity costs
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Lengermann, Paul … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
We reconsider the potential for explaining inter-industry wage differences by decomposing those differences into parts due to individual and employer heterogeneity, respectively. Using longitudinally linked employer-employee data, we estimate the model for the United States and France. The part...
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Union organizing decisions in a deteriorating environment : the composition of representation elections and the decline in turnout
Farber, Henry S. - 2014
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...
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