across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … with the empirical evidence. -- Poverty ; crime ; neighborhood effects ; segregation ; instrumental variables ; public …

latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation. To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

This paper measures the 2007-13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S. The U.S. changes are greater …, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by employment, and primarily achieved with new … employment during its "austerity" period. Tax rate measurements are a first ingredient for cross-country comparisons of labor …

Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers … experience, single mothers' real wages and employment have remained relatively unchanged. The empirical analysis suggests that an …

care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We … in welfare. Ordinary least squares estimates show positive and significant effects of subsidy receipt on employment …