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作者：Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens
作者单位：University of Wurzburg; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); University of Konstanz; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
摘要：We study the impact of trade exposure on the job biographies of 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany. Rising export opportunities lead to two equally important sources of earnings gains: on the job and employer switches within the same industry. Highly skilled workers benefit the most. Import shocks mostly hurt low-skilled workers, especially when they possess lots of industry-specific human capital. They also destroy workers' rents when separating from high-wage plants, and they leave...
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作者：Mulhern, Christine
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Choosing where to apply to college is a complex problem with long-term consequences, but many students lack the guidance necessary to make optimal choices. I show that a technology that provides low-cost personalized college admissions information to more than 40% of high schoolers significantly alters college choices. Students shift applications and attendance to colleges for which they can observe information on schoolmates' admissions experiences. Responses are largest when such information...
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作者：Barach, Moshe A.; Horton, John J.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We report the results of a field experiment in which treated employers could not observe the compensation history of their job applicants. Treated employers responded by evaluating more applicants and evaluating those applicants more intensively. They also responded by changing what kind of workers they evaluated: treated employers evaluated workers with 5% lower past average wages and hired workers with 13% lower past average wages. Conditional on bargaining, workers hired by treated employer...
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作者：Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Columbia University
摘要：There is concern that the risky behaviors of teenagers, such as truancy, negatively influence the behaviors of others through their social networks. We use administrative data to construct social networks based on students who are truant together. We simulate these networks to document that certain students systematically coordinate their absences. We validate them by showing that a parent information intervention on student absences has spillover effects from treated students onto their peers...
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作者：Lazear, Edward P.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：The composition of immigrants depends not only on immigrant choice but also on immigration policy, because slots are rationed. Policy determines immigrant attainment, as evidenced by immigrants from Algeria having higher educational attainment than those from Israel or Japan. Theory predicts and evidence confirms that immigrant attainment is inversely related to the number admitted from a source country and positively related to population and education levels at home. A parsimonious specifica...
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作者：Rose, Evan K.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper uses administrative employment and conviction data to evaluate laws that restrict access to job seekers' criminal records. Convictions generate decreases in employment and earnings, partly due to shifts toward lower-paying industries less likely to check criminal histories. However, a 2013 Seattle law barring employers from examining job seekers' records until after an initial screening had negligible impacts on ex-offenders' labor market outcomes. The results are consistent with em...
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作者：Rho, Deborah; Sanders, Seth
作者单位：University of St Thomas Minnesota; Duke University
摘要：We construct the first long-term comparison of cross-sectional and panel estimates of immigrant earnings assimilation in the United States from a single data source. Unlike previous results, we find that selective out-migration of higher-earning immigrants biases downward cross-sectional estimates for all education groups. Cross-sectional estimates dramatically understate earnings growth for high-skilled foreign-born workers. The bias stems from both selective out-migration and selective emplo...
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作者：Guiso, Luigi; Pistaferri, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano
作者单位：Stanford University; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：We document that individuals who grow up in high firm density areas are more likely to become entrepreneurs, given firm density in their current location, and to run businesses in the sector with the highest density when young. Firm density at an entrepreneur's young age drives current firm profitability and is more important than current density for business performance. Results hold in a sample of movers, which allows addressing endogeneity concerns. These results are consistent with entrepr...
