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Decomposing Violence : Crime Cycles in the Twentieth Century in the United States
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo A. - 2008
waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770581
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Testing for factor price equality in the presence of unobserved factor quality differences
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - 2009 - Rev.
We develop a method for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this method to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative skilled wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003930536
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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Kovak, Brian - 2017
Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of multinational firms' domestic and foreign affiliate employment decisions. In this paper, we resolve this identification problem using variation in Bilateral Tax Treaties (BTTs),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944101
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What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data
Abdih, Yasser - 2017
.S.input-output tables, and the Current Population Survey, we find that in addition to changes inlabor institutions, technological change and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948535
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Trade and Job Loss in U.S. Manufacturing, 1979-94
Kletzer, Lori G. - 1999
This paper examines the relationship between increasing foreign competition and job displacement in U.S. manufacturing over the 1979-94 period. This was a period of increased trade flows, large swings in the value of the dollar, and falling trade barriers in developing countries. The period was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216233
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US Trade and Wages : The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2013
manufactured imports from developing countries since the 1990s have been a powerful source of increased US wage inequality.In this … mandated increased US wage inequality. While these results conflict with standard theory, they are easily explained if the … is the case, the impact of increased trade with developing countries on US wage inequality is far more muted than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094649
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Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper continues my research program on violence and terrorism started 15 years ago. It presents in the first part through empirical exercises, the suitability of The Beveridge and Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790155
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DECOMPOSING VIOLENCE: CRIME CYCLES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN THE UNITED STATES
GOMEZ-SORZANO, Gustavo Alejandro - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 7 (2007) 1
documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063007
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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals
Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014
to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386014
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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime
Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532559