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作者：Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Wren-Lewis, Liam
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Free University of Berlin; Helmut Schmidt University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Paris School of Economics; INRAE
摘要：This paper investigates whether interracial contact in childhood impacts adult romantic relationships. We exploit quasi-random variation in the share of black students across cohorts within US schools. We find that more black peers of the same gender lead whites to have more relationships with blacks as adults. While we do not find impacts on labor market outcomes, there are significant effects on reported racial attitudes. Furthermore, an increase in meeting opportunities is unlikely to expla...
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作者：Monras, Joan
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：This paper introduces a spatial equilibrium model that relates earnings, employment, and internal migration responses to minimum wage increases. Population moves to or away from regions that increase minimum wages depending on the labor demand elasticity and on the financing of unemployment benefits. The empirical evidence shows that increases in minimum wages lead to increases in wages and decreases in employment among the low skilled. The labor demand elasticity is estimated to be around 1, ...
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作者：Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica
作者单位：Boston University; National University of Singapore; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We provide evidence that constraints that prevent highly skilled women from working long hours hinder gender pay equality. We show that relaxing one such constraint by increasing the supply of substitutes for household production-proxied by intercity variation in predicted low-skilled immigration-increases the relative earnings of women in occupations that disproportionately reward overwork. Low-skilled immigration inflows induce young women to enter occupations with higher returns to overwork...
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作者：Yi, Junjian
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：This paper studies the endogenous formation of intersibling altruism. The theory suggests that parental incentive to foster children's fraternal love is positively related to efficiency gains from more human capital investment in the more gifted child. The empirical analyses explore the plausibly exogenous within-twin difference in birth weight, a proxy for prenatal endowment. Consistent with the theory, the estimation results show that a larger difference in children's birth weight leads to m...
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作者：Serafinelli, Michel
作者单位：University of Essex; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper is the first to present direct evidence showing how localized knowledge spillovers arise from workers changing jobs within the same local labor market. Using a unique data set combining Social Security earnings records and balance sheet information for the Veneto region of Italy, I first identify a set of highly productive firms, then show that hiring workers with experience at these firms significantly increases the productivity of other firms. My findings imply that worker flows e...
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作者：Johnson, Janna E.; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago
摘要：We assess changing patterns of migration and their association with labor outcomes for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the NLSY. Although the long-distance migration rate is lower in the 1997 cohort, we find that migration fell mostly because return migration fell. We uncover little difference in patterns of selection into migration in the two cohorts, little difference in correlation between migration and labor market outcomes, and little evidence in either cohort of a positive labor market retu...
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作者：Jaume, David; Willen, Alexander
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across provinces in Argentina to examine how teacher strikes affect student long-run outcomes. Being exposed to the average incidence of strikes during primary school reduces labor earnings of males and females by 3.2% and 1.9%, respectively. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that this amounts to an aggregate annual earnings loss of $2.34 billion. We also find an increase in unemployment and a decline i...
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作者：Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana; Skuterud, Mikal
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Waterloo
摘要：We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the United States to assess the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labor market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with policy reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of US skilled immigrants. Given that ther...
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作者：Rothstein, Jesse
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Intergenerational income transmission varies across commuting zones (CZs). I investigate whether children's educational outcomes help to explain this variation. Differences among CZs in the relationship between parental income and children's human capital explain only one-ninth of the variation in income transmission. A similar share is explained by differences in the return to human capital. One-third reflects earnings differences not mediated by human capital, and 40% reflects differences in...
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作者：Banfi, Stefano; Villena-Roldan, Benjamin
作者单位：Universidad de Chile
摘要：Labor markets become more efficient in theory if job seekers direct their search. Using online job board data, we show that high-wage ads attract more applicants as in directed search models. Due to distinctive data features, we also estimate significant but milder directed search for hidden (or implicit) wages, suggesting that ad texts and requirements tacitly convey wage information. Since explicit-wage ads often target unskilled workers, other estimates in the literature ignoring hidden-wag...
