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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes …

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Culture and Language

Lazear, Edward P. - 1995

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of assimilation is larger to someone from a small minority than to one...

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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows

Amanzadeh, Naser - 2024

We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...

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Recovering Overlooked Information in Categorical Variables with LLMs : An Application to Labor Market Mismatch

Chen, Yi - 2024

easily accessible survey data. Third, we investigate the gender gap in match quality and explore whether there exists gender … stereotypes in the hiring process. We simulate an audit study, examining whether revealing gender information to LLMs influences … their assessment. We show that when gender information is disclosed to the GPT, the model deems females better suited for …

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Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention : A Behavioral Economic Analysis

Silverman, Kenneth - 1998

job can occupy a substantial portion of a person's day with work, thereby reducing the amount of time available for drug … consumption (i.e., employment reduces behavioral income for drug use). Because money buys drugs, monetary pay for work may …

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Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good provision are decided by a self-interested politician who cannot commit to policies. We show that, as long as the discount factor of the politician is equal to or greater than...

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Matching Capital and Labor

Berk, Jonathan B. - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms

Giroud, Xavier - 2012

We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...

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Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies

Aguiar, Mark A. - 2011

We study optimal fiscal policy in a small open economy (SOE) with sovereign and private default risk. The SOE's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions. We characterize a class of environments in which the...

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Culture : Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2014

This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes....

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