Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Claudio Labanca and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores three topics in labor and public economics. Chapter 1 studies how coordination of hours among coworkers affects labor supply decisions and wage rates. Using rich data from Denmark we find that greater coordination of hours within firms is associated with higher wages, attenuated response to tax rate changes and spillover effects on hours worked by workers who are not directly affected by a tax change. Chapter 2 estimates the short-term effects of migration on employment of native workers in Italy using the exogenous, unanticipated and temporary migration resulting from the Arab Spring. I find significant and offsetting short-term effects across industries. The positive employment effects are consistent with a rise in sectoral employment operating through increased demand from immigrants. Both positive and negative effects on employment tend to dissipate over time. Chapter 3 uses rich data from Brazil to show evidence that exporters prepare to export by hiring workers from other exporters. We also show that poaching workers from other exporters is a strong predictor of various aspects of export-market success at the poaching firm.
Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Simon Jäger and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three independent essays in labor and public economics. Chapter 1 presents evidence on how exogenous worker exits affect a firm's demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Using matched employer-employee data based on the universe of German social security records, I analyze the effects of unexpected worker deaths and show that these worker exits affect the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. Chapter 2 (with Peter Ganong) proposes a permutation test for the Regression Kink (RK) design. As a complement to standard RK inference, we propose that researchers construct a distribution of placebo estimates in regions with and without a policy kink and use this distribution to gauge statistical significance of RK estimates. Chapter 3 (with Johannes Abeler) analyzes a laboratory experiment to study how tax complexity affects the reaction to tax changes.
Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Jennifer Anne Graves and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three essays in labor and public economics written by Joshua M. Congdon-Hohman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Susan Yeh and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter, joint with Cecilia E. Rouse, evaluates a learning communities experiment, which had goals of fostering student engagement and collaborative learning among at-risk students at a diverse two-year college. We find that the program improved academic achievement during the semester it was implemented, but most advantages disappeared in the following terms. The last section of the essay considers the role of motivational factors in explaining the program's impacts and, more directly, their effects on academic outcomes. We observe that perceiving a more engaging experience in the first semester of college does not necessarily translate to better performances afterwards.
Download or read book Three Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Jonah B. Gelbach and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Sebastian Camarero Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Public Economics and Labor Economics written by Sebastian Seitz and published by . This book was released on 2022* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Matias Giaccobasso Amorena and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of a series of essays in public economics, development economics, labor economics, and behavioral economics, that provide a comprehensive illustration of the core of my research agenda. In the first paper, Ifocus on the transfer side of public economics. More specifically, I study the effects of a cash transfer program on individuals' transition to adulthood. In the second and third papers, I focus on the taxation side of public economics. In the second paper, I focus on top-income earners and how they react to a change in the top personal income tax rates. Finally, in the third paper, I focus on how individuals make their tax compliance decisions, in particular, in the role of tax morale mechanisms. Collectively, this series of essays contribute to building our understanding of how individuals interact with tax and transfer policies. Empirical evidence on these interactions are key inputs for the discussion of optimal policy design.
Download or read book Essays in Labor Economics and Public Finance written by Jacqueline Eve Berger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Victor Hernandez Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis consists of three independent essays in labor and public economics. Chapter 1 argues that credit constraints are an important mechanism to understand the labor supply responses of unemployed workers to increased unemployment insurance generosity. This chapter proposes a novel method to assess the severity of credit constraints for different groups of unemployed workers, via estimation of their internal interest rate. The only inputs of this method are the labor supply responses of unemployed workers to conditional and unconditional income transfers, free of any parameterization of individuals' preferences, beliefs, or market structure. To estimate these inputs, we use administrative data from Spain and provide causal estimates of the labor supply responses to changes in potential duration, benefit level, and severance payment, both in the aggregate and for different subgroups. The results indicate that poorer workers face an internal interest rate 40 percent larger than wealthier workers. Furthermore, for poorer workers, credit constraints represent up to 40 percent of the labor supply responses to increased UI generosity, vs. only 16 percent for richer individuals. Finally, we suggest that redistribution within the unemployment system, from individuals with long to short working experience, can reduce both the inefficiency from credit constraints and the aggregate distortion generated by moral hazard. Chapter 2 provides an alternative approach to define the specificity of human capital, based on how concentrated, or specialized, is the knowledge used in an occupation. I combine this new measure with individual labor histories from the NLSY79-97 to analyze the heterogeneity of earning losses following an exogenous displacement. I provide evidence that, holding any other individual and aggregated characteristics constant, greater levels of knowledge specialization at displacement are associated with significantly larger earning losses, in the range of an additional 5 to 9 pp for an individual in the 75th percentile of knowledge specialization vs the 25th percentile. This larger losses do not seem to be driven by longer periods of unemployment or longer distance (in the task space) occupational moves following displacement. In addition, I show that the loss premia associated with changing industries/ occupations post displacement is almost fully driven by higher specialization levels. For low specialization levels, industry/occupational changes imply relatively small additional losses after the first year. Furthermore, I do not find evidence of negative effect of higher pre displacement specialization on earning losses for those who remain in the same industry or occupation. Finally, Chapter 3 aims to understand whether machines can replace workers in the labor market and, if so, which types of workers are the ones that can be substituted with technology. Using an IV strategy, I take advantage of the shale boom in the US and the relative increase in low skilled labor demand it generated in sectors related to oil & gas production to analyze the changes in the annual capital expenditures, output, labor composition and relative wages of manufacturing firms, located in areas exposed to this shock. My findings suggest a mild substitutability between low skill labor and capital in the manufacturing sector. The structure of my data allows me to assess how is best defined low skill labor in this scenario. I find that the strongest conclusions are reached when the definition of high skill labor includes only those with a college degree or above that level of education"--Pages ix-x.
Download or read book Five Essays on Labor and Public Economics written by Wei Huang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important to understand the individual behavioral responses to public policies and the corresponding social consequences because they are key parameters to evaluate and design efficient social policies. In this dissertation, I examine the effects of a series of public policies in China by investigating the policy-induced individual behaviors and social consequences in different stages over lifetime. Chapter 1 examines the impact of fertility policies on the education investment in girls; Chapter 2 shows how the ethnic-specific terms in the OCP distorted individual behaviors and equilibrium outcomes in marriage market; Chapter 3 examines an unintended outcome of birth control policies - more reported twins; Chapter 4 uses the compulsory schooling laws (CSL) as exogenous shocks to estimate the causal effects of education on health at prime ages; Chapter 5 examines the effects of new social pension provision on the outcomes of the elderly, including income, expenditure health and mortality. I conclude that the public policies have significant and remarkable effects on the behaviors and welfare outcomes of individuals. In addition, these lessons from China may shed lights on the some important and general interested questions in economics.
Download or read book Essays in Public and Labor Economics written by Frédéric Panier and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is composed of three empirical papers in the field of labor and public economics. The first paper uses historical data from the New-York Stock Exchange to investigate the importance of ethnic discrimination, ethnic networks and ethnic homophily in the field of finance. The second paper studies the role of parental insurance on the job search behavior of new entrants in the labor market. It also uses parental shocks around the time of the child's entry into the labor force as an instrument to test for the existence of persistent effects from a temporary increase in job search effort at the beginning of a worker's career. The third paper takes advantage of an important tax reform that took place in Belgium in 2006 to answer a longstanding question in the field of public economics and corporate finance: what is the role of corporate taxes in determining the observed levels of leverage among incorporated firms.
Download or read book Three Essays in Labor and Public Economics written by Jeremy Zuchuat and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thèse. HEC. 2023
Download or read book Three Essays on Labor Economics and Public Policy written by Paul A. Torelli and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
