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Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing

Bergeaud, Antonin; Mazet-Sonilhac, Clément; … - 2021

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. This paper addresses the question of the technological drivers of this phenomenon by studying the impact of the staggered diffusion of broadband internet in France during the 2000s. Our results confirm...

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Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis

Jetter, Michael; Magnusson, Leandro; Roth, Sebastian - 2020

This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the 2008 financial crisis. Studying longitudinal, nationally representative data for 22,579 Australian-based respondents in up to 11...

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Detecting mortgage delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for hardship letter from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225764

Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our … where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …

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Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence

Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...

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The G.I. Bill and Underemployment

Domnisoru, Ciprian - 2023

While the ill luck of graduating during a recession is understood to potentially result in job mismatch, less is known about the drivers of underemployment outside of business cycles. This paper shows that the college subsidy investments undertaken as part of the WWII, Vietnam War, and Post-9/11...

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Acquisition of skills, education subsidies, and agglomeration of firms

Toulemonde, Eric - 2003

location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We …

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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a limited period of time. The low-wage subsidies, on the other hand, are granted … relative to low-wage subsidies. Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat …

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Taxes and benefits: two distinct options to cheat on the state?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008

While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...

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