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作者：Wang, Xuening
作者单位：Renmin University of China
摘要：One concern regarding US immigration policies is that skilled workers on temporary visas may be bound to their employers in indentured servitude, giving rise to monopsony power. I investigate this concern by estimating the effect of acquiring permanent residency on the job mobility and earnings of these workers. Using fixed effects models, I find an immediate upsurge in mobility upon permanent residency receipt, primarily driven by voluntary moving being depressed during the employer-sponsored...
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作者：He, Haoran; Neumark, David; Weng, Qian
作者单位：Beijing Normal University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; National Bureau of Economic Research; Renmin University of China
摘要：We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when (time flexibility) or where (place flexibility) one works and in offering different salaries. Application rates are higher for flexible jobs conditional on the salary offered, providing evidence that workers value job flexibility. Moreover, under some plausible conditions our evidence is informativ...
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作者：Gopalan, Radhakrishnan; Hamilton, Barton H.; Kalda, Ankit; Sovich, David
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Kentucky
摘要：We use administrative payroll data to estimate the effect of the minimum wage on employment and wages. We find that both effects are nuanced. While the overall number of low-wage workers in firms declines, incumbent workers are no less likely to remain employed. We find that firms reduce employment primarily through hiring, and there is significant heterogeneity across the nontradable and tradable sectors. For wages, we find modest spillovers extending up to $2.50 above the minimum wage. Spill...
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作者：McConnell, Brendon; Rasul, Imran
作者单位：University of Southampton; University of London; University College London
摘要：We investigate whether increased animosity toward Muslims after 9/11 had spillover effects on Black and Hispanic individuals in the federal criminal justice system. Using linked administrative data tracking defendants from arrest through sentencing, we find that after 9/11, sentence and presentence outcomes for Hispanic defendants significantly worsened. Outcomes for Black defendants were unchanged. The findings are consistent with judges and prosecutors displaying social preferences character...
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作者：Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Menezes, Livia
作者单位：University of Surrey; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Birmingham
摘要：We combine extremely granular information on the location and timing of homicides with a number of large administrative educational data sets from Brazil to estimate the effect of exposure to homicides around schools, around students' residences, and on their way to school. We show that violence has a detrimental effect on both school attendance and standardized test scores and that it increases the dropout rates of students substantially. We use exceptionally rich information from student- an...
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作者：Ferrie, Joseph; Massey, Catherine; Rothbaum, Jonathan
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：We assess the biases induced by measurement error in a study of correlations in educational attainment across two and three generations in the United States using linked data spanning 1940-2015. Although multigenerational regressions show an economically meaningful grandparent effect, we find that this effect is overstated and likely not statistically or economically significant after we correct for measurement error. However, that same measurement error means that inferences derived using onl...
