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Labor demand shocks and housing prices across the US : does one size fit all?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...
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The impact of the announcement of temporary building sites for refugees on house prices in Gothenburg
Kjellander, Josef; Nilsson, Viktor; Vuuren, Aico van - 2018
We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, we look at the price development in the year after the announcement. We...
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?
Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2023
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that...
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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle income countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and … security contributions, and interventions that enforce labor or business formalization. In this paper, we compile a database of … 157 impact estimates from 32 academic studies that evaluate empirically one or more of these formalization interventions …
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Formalized employee search and labor demand
Hensel, Lukas; Tekleselassie, Tsegay Gebrekidan; Witte, Marc - 2021
Firms often use social networks to find workers, limiting the pool of potential applicants. We conduct a field experiment subsidizing firms' formal vacancy posting. The subsidies increase non-network employee search and shift vacancies towards high-skilled positions. Post-treatment, firms...
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To Play or Not to Play: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Branded Entertainment in Facebook
Zhang, Jie; Sung, Yongjun; Lee, Wei-Na - In: American Journal of Business 25 (2010) 1, pp. 53-64
Employing the conceptual framework of play themes, this study examined and reported the product categories that presented branded entertainment the most, the different types and features of branded entertainment, and how various play themes were incorporated in branded entertainment in the...
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Stock Buybacks and Their Association with Stock Options Exercised in the IT Industry
Hurtt, David N.; Kreuze, Jerry G.; Langsam, Sheldon A. - In: American Journal of Business 23 (2008) 1, pp. 13-21
One of the most complex and controversial issues confronting the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) over the last several years has been the accounting and financial reporting of stock options. In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement 123R, Share-Based Payment, in the hope that the...
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Managing Process Capability
Humphrey, Susan K.; Krehbiel, Timothy C. - In: American Journal of Business 14 (1999) 2, pp. 7-12
Process capability is the ability of a process to consistently meet specified customer-driven requirements, and is often reported in terms of capability indices and ratios. In this paper we briefly discuss these indices and ratios, as well as their managerial implications. We then introduce a...
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Reducing Identity Politics in the Workplace: A Modest Proposal
Kennedy, Sheila Suess; Magjuka, Richard J. - In: American Journal of Business 17 (2002) 1, pp. 32-42
Ever since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, employers have complained that nondiscrimination laws constitute an additional regulatory burden on business, while civil rights advocates have argued that compliance requires nothing more than the sorts of sound personnel practices that...
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