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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials

Askenazy, Philippe - 2013

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...

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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation

Giuliano, Laura M. - 2011

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...

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Slow Traffic, Fast Food : The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice

B, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost …

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Gains from Trade and the Food Engel Curve

Farrokhi, Farid; Jinkins, David Carson; Chong, Xiang - 2022

with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food … Engel curves in the US and in a few other countries. For a given price index as the deflator of income, deviations from food …

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Weight Gains from Trade in Foods : Evidence from Mexico

Giuntella, Osea - 2019

food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food … 2012. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a …

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Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits : Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program

Meckel, Katherine - 2020

The government often contracts with private firms to deliver in-kind safety net benefits. These public-private partnerships generate agency problems that could increase costs, but cost-containment reforms may discourage firm participation. We study a 2012 reform of California's Special...

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Covid-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers

Cho, Seung Jin - 2020

Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of … persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with a focus on food manufacturing and grocery stores. We find that the … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing …

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On the Persistence of the China Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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