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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …

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On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020

distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data. We find that state and U.S. county safer … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …

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Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers

Depew, Briggs; Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd - 2013

Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT guest workers and provide new evidence on their inter-firm...

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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013

In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...

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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase when labor markets strengthen. For instance,...

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Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

Using a large panel of administrative records this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with economic growth. However, the ranking model of...

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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus is on the extent to which individuals?...

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Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions

Yashiv, Eran - 2002

The paper explores the consequences of macroeconomic policy for labor market outcomes in the presence of frictions. It shows how policy may be useful in overriding frictions, as well as how it might generate adverse outcomes. The analysis looks at the main tools of macroeconomic policy and...

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Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model

Yashiv, Eran - 2006

Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some significant failures in accounting for the data. This paper aims to answer two questions: (i) Does the model fit the...

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The finnish great depression: from Russia with love

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L. - 2009

During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...

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