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Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

unemployment and increasing reliance on social security persist across wide regions of East Germany together with these migration … networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration ("West Germany'') and one with a low … networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant rate of emigration ("East Germany''). The model …

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine; Haltiwanger, John; Sandusky, Kristin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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Has Job Stability Declined Yet? New Evidence for the 1990's

Neumark, David; Polsky, Daniel; Hansen, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

In earlier work we examined the temporal evolution of job stability in U.S. labor markets through the 1980's, using data assembled from a sequence of Current Population Survey tenure supplements. We found little or no change in aggregate job stability in the U.S. economy. In addition, older and...

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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms

Serrato, Juan Carlos Suárez; Zidar, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers, landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment rules. We develop a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms and workers. Firm owners may earn profits...

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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Boustan, Leah Platt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...

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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession

Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...

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Evaluating Conditions in Major Chinese Housing Markets

Gyourko, Joseph; Deng, Yongheng; Wu, Jing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

High and rising prices in Chinese housing markets have attracted global attention, as well as the interest of the Chinese government and its regulators. Housing markets look very risky based on the stylized facts we document. Price-to-rent ratios in Beijing and seven other large markets across...

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The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

Levin, Jonathan; Einav, Liran - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Many believe that "big data" will transform business, government and other aspects of the economy. In this article we discuss how new data may impact economic policy and economic research. Large-scale administrative datasets and proprietary private sector data can greatly improve the way we...

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No-Arbitrage Semi-Martingale Restrictions for Continuous-Time Volatility Models subject to Leverage Effects, Jumps and i.i.d. Noise: Theory and Testable Distributional Implications

Bollerslev, Tim; Andersen, Torben G.; Dobrev, Dobrislav - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We develop a sequential procedure to test the adequacy of jump-diffusion models for return distributions. We rely on intraday data and nonparametric volatility measures, along with a new jump detection technique and appropriate conditional moment tests, for assessing the import of jumps and...

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Plant-level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data

White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P.; Petrin, Amil - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to explaining the causes and consequences of these differences. In the U.S. Census Bureau's manufacturing data, the Bureau imputes for missing values using methods known to result in...

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