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作者：Konya, Istvan
摘要：This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article's key contribution is the joint analysis of the assimilation and migration decisions, which highlights the inefficiency of some commonly advocated policy tools to achieve the first best. U. S. data provide preliminary support for the model's im...
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作者：Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We use a unique data set of California births to ask whether intergenerational correlations in health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status. We find that if a mother was low birth weight, her child is significantly more likely to be low birth weight, even when we compare mothers who are sisters. Second, the intergenerational transmission of low birth weight is stronger for mothers in high poverty zip codes. Third, low birth weight affects proxies for later socioeconomic status. Fou...
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作者：Skuterud, Mikal
作者单位：University of Waterloo
摘要：Between 1997 and 2000, the Canadian province of Quebec reduced its standard workweek from 44 to 40 hours with the aim of stimulating employment growth. Unlike the European work-sharing policies examined elsewhere, the Quebec policy contained no suggestion or requirement that employers provide wage increases to compensate workers for lost hours. For this reason, among others, the Quebec policy provides a better test of the potential of work-sharing as a job-creation strategy. The evidence sugge...
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作者：Boschini, Anne; Sjogren, Anna
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：We model team formation as a random matching process influenced by agents' preferences for team size and gender composition. We then test if the coauthorship pattern in articles published during 1991 - 2002 in three top economics journals is gender neutral, exploiting variation in female presence across subfields. Controlling for author, team, and field characteristics, we find that the gender gap in the propensity to coauthor with a woman increases in the presence of women in the subfield. We...
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作者：Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We study the economics of employment relationships in large law firms. Our point of departure is the property-rights approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control significant nonhuman assets of the enterprise. From this perspective, law firms are an interesting object of study because the key asset in these firms is knowledge, particularly knowledge of the needs and interests of clients. We argue that two distinctive organizational features of law firms - the u...
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作者：Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey, we examine why African American - owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival. Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business and less likely to have worked in that family member's business. Using a nonlinear decomposition technique, we find that the lack o...
