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employment, the authors find very minor effects in some sectors but the aggregate local employment does not change significantly. …
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-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …
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: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …
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Motherhood and parental leave are frequent causes of worker absences and employment interruptions, yet we know little … benefits affect firm-level employment and hiring decisions. Focusing on small- and medium-sized firms, we show that more … generous benefits reduce firm-level employment in the short term, which is driven by firms with few internal substitutes for …
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To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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This paper studies a place-based industrial policy (PBIP) aiming to establish industrial clusters in Italy in the 1960s-70s. Combining historical archives spanning one century with administrative data and leveraging exogenous variation in government intervention, we investigate both the...
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.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …
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This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy and documents two sets of facts. The first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy, with both the size of public employment and wage …
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This paper studies the relationship between wealth inequality and occupational choice between rent-seeking and production. With imperfect credit markets and a fixed cost to rent-seeking, only wealthy agents choose to engage in rent-seeking as it enables them to protect their wealth from...
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