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Do More Tourists Promote Local Employment?

González, Libertad; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2024

We analyze the impact of tourist flows on local labor markets, following a novel identification strategy that uses temporary shocks in alternative international destinations to instrument for tourism flows across Spanish regions. We find that a one standard deviation increase in tourist inflows...

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Automation and Low-Skill Labor

Mann, Katja; Pozzoli, Dario - 2022

Changes in the supply of low-skill labor may affect robot adoption by firms. We test this hypothesis by exploiting an exogenous increase in the local labor supply induced by a large influx of immigrants into Danish municipalities. Using the Danish employer-employee matched dataset over the...

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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2003

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting?) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...

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Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

Jaeger, David A.; Ruist, Joakim; Stuhler, Jan - 2018

A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices, the most commonly-used instrument interacts national inflows by country of origin with immigrants'...

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Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Colella, Fabrizio; Lalive, Rafael; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan; … - 2019

Analyses of spatial or network data are now very common. Nevertheless, statistical inference is challenging since unobserved heterogeneity can be correlated across neighboring observational units. We develop an estimator for the variance-covariance matrix (VCV) of OLS and 2SLS that allows for...

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The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?

Donaubauer, Julian; Dreger, Christian - 2016

China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is integral part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The changes in the economic strategy are...

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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting…) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...

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Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples

Oreffice, Sonia; Sansone, Dario - 2022

We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we test the model predictions and find that women in...

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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

degree of specialization in more narrowly defined household tasks from the 2001-2019 waves of the Household, Income and … provides limited evidence of specialization in any type of relationship. The results for women are much stronger. Women who … yields some further evidence of specialization. Survey responses on the degree of specialization are more informative. The …

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On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate...

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