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作者：Elias, Ferran; Monras, Joan; Vazquez-Grenno, Javier
作者单位：Universitat de Girona; Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Barcelona School of Economics; Pompeu Fabra University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Pompeu Fabra University; University of Barcelona
摘要：We study the regularization of 600,000 non-EU immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government following the terrorist attacks of 2004. By comparing non-EU to EU immigrants, we estimate that the policy did not lead to magnet effects. We then show that immigrant formal employment increased, while that of natives was not affected. However, there was a decrease in informal employment of both native and immigrant low-skilled workers. We document that tax revenues increased by around 4,000...
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作者：Deza, Monica; Mezza, Alvaro
作者单位：Syracuse University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要：We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effects of fathers' draft eligibility on children's propensity to engage in risky behaviors during adolescence using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Draft eligibility increases measures of substance use, increases intensity of use, decreases age of initiation-particularly for marijuana-and increases measures of delinquency. We also show that draft eligibility led to changes...
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作者：Ahn, So Yoon
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Severe gender imbalances coupled with stark income differences across countries are driving an increase in cross-border marriages in many Asian countries. I theoretically and empirically study who marries whom and how couples allocate marital surplus in Taiwanese and Vietnamese marriage markets. I find that Taiwanese men are selected from the middle level of the human capital distribution and that Vietnamese women are positively selected for cross-border marriages. I show that changes in the c...
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作者：Gaillard, Alexandre; Kankanamge, Sumudu
作者单位：Brown University; Le Mans Universite
摘要：This paper evaluates self-employment assistance (SEA) programs, which are government initiatives extending the unemployment insurance system to support unemployment to self-employment transitions. Using a general equilibrium model of the US labor market, we show that these programs have important labor market mobility effects and increase the self-employment rate. They also significantly impact the composition and performance outcomes of self-employment: while lump-sum subsidies select low-ski...
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作者：Altonji, Joseph G.; Giraldo-Paez, Daniel; Hynsjo, Disa; Vidangos, Ivan
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University; Yale University; Yale University; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要：For birth cohorts 1935-44, 1945-62, and 1964-74, we estimate the contribution of education; permanent heterogeneity in wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and marital histories to the age profiles of the variance of family income per adult equivalent. Education and employment heterogeneity are key sources of the rise in variance with age and across cohorts. Wage heterogeneity is important at all ages. Own characteri...
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作者：Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Cambridge
摘要：We develop a tractable economic framework to study the impact of family structure on children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes. Combining a sequential choice model with panel data on both biological parents, irrespective of subsequent relationship status, and on social fathers and a set of exclusion restrictions, we identify the unobserved heterogeneity of biological families and examine child skill formation via a control function approach. Time investments made by high-ability fathers h...
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作者：Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao; Sun, Jiandong
作者单位：Jinan University; Johns Hopkins University; Guangzhou University
摘要：We study the US labor market transitions using a latent variable approach, explicitly modeling the persistent misclassification process and the non-Markovian nature of the underlying true labor force dynamics. A closed-form global identification for misclassification probabilities and labor transition probabilities is established through an eigenvalue-eigenvector decomposition. Contrary to existing studies, our empirical results suggest that the observed data have understated the true mobility...
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作者：Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Jennjou; Chuang, Hongwei; Lin, Tzu-Hsin
作者单位：University of Tokyo; National Chengchi University; National Taiwan University; National Taiwan University Hospital
摘要：We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less likely to have surgery, radiation, or checkups and more likely to receive targeted therapy, spend more on drugs, enjoy a higher survival rate, and spend less on coinsurance than nonphysician-patients. K...
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作者：Arendt, Jacob Nielsen; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：We immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased, while their average language proficiency remained largely unchanged. This was caused by a disincentive effect, where individuals with low prereform labor market performance reduced their labor supply. Our fin...
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作者：Cheng, Wei; Weinberg, Bruce
作者单位：East China University of Science and Technology; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：The diffusion and use of new ideas is critical for producing innovations and realizing their potential. We explore how characteristics of innovators and potential adopters affect the adoption of important, new scientific ideas in networks. Using rich data on biomedical researchers and their networks, natural language processing, and a novel two-way fixed effects strategy, we find that new ideas introduced by female scientists are underutilized for two reasons. First, female innovators are less...
