-
作者：Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Borjas, George J.
作者单位：Statistics Canada; Harvard University
摘要：Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10% labor supply shift is associated with a 3%-4% opposite-signed change in wages. Despite the similarity in the wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International migration narrowed wage inequalit...
-
作者：Oester, Anna; Agell, Jonas
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：We use the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment in Sweden during the 1990s to identify the effect of unemployment on crime. Our findings are as follows: (i) There is a statistically and economically significant effect of general unemployment on the incidence of burglary, auto theft, and drug possession; (ii) we find no evidence for the popular view that youth unemployment matters for crime; (iii) prime-aged unemployment is robustly correlated with main categories of youthfu...
-
作者：Aragones, Enriqueta; Postlewaite, Andrew; Palfrey, Thomas
作者单位：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); University of Pennsylvania; California Institute of Technology
摘要：We analyze conditions under which candidates' reputations may affect voters' beliefs over what policy will be implemented by the winning candidate of an election. We develop a model of repeated elections with complete information in which candidates are purely ideological. We analyze an equilibrium in which voters' strategies involve a credible threat to punish candidates who renege on their campaign promises and in which all campaign promises are believed by voters and honored by candidates. ...
-
作者：Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Turrini, Alessandro
作者单位：University of Bologna; European Commission Joint Research Centre
摘要：We introduce incomplete contracts in a model where multinational firms from a certain country (North) can decide to serve a foreign market (South) through exports or through horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI relies on the supply of specialized intermediate inputs that could be supplied either by northern suppliers or by suppliers located in South. Intermediate sourcing contracts are complete in North but not in South. Were southern contracts also complete, FDI would arise only wh...
-
作者：Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard; Markusen, James R.
作者单位：Stockholm University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University College Dublin
摘要：A poorly understood empirical phenomenon is export-platform affiliate production (EP), particularly for sale in third countries rather than in the parent or host countries. We develop a three-region model, with two identical large, high-cost countries (collectively called North) and a small, low-cost country (South). The large countries each have one firm. Our theory section analyzes the conditions under which one or both of these firms uses the South to produce for (a) export back to the pare...
