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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
has an empirical paper presenting evidence that households that face higher labor income risk are somewhat less likely to choose tax-efficient asset location strategies, consistent with his theoretical...
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by Ann Cullen
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
way: "We currently have 12 million undocumented Mexicans inside the US and we do not know what to do with them ." Other arguments included those of Tony Eckel that "economic benefits of any worker immigration is limited exclusively to the View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
year-over-year decrease in the Gini Coefficient (increasing equality) is strongly (and linearly) associated with an increase in household income." Steve Scheinkopf agreed, saying "I used to be an Ayn Rand capitalist, but...
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increased enrollment by 3–5 percentage points. Newly eligible households were also 20% more likely to own a business, with larger effects for incorporated firms. I find large increases in labor supply on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Entrepreneurship,” written with his wife Sari Pekkala Kerr, a labor economist at Wellesley College. The paper uses a unique new database to track immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over the past few decades, revealing, for example, what...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
equally high levels of pro-social motivation. The researchers followed the health workers' progress for 18 months when they returned to their communities to provide health services. It turned out career-focused applicants visited 29 percent more View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
McGinn Publication:Negotiation Journal 24, no. 4 (October 2008): 393-410 Abstract We propose taking a two-level-game perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the racialization of capitalism;...
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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
entrepreneurship. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54068 January 2018 Journal of Labor Economics Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants By: Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by this standard its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
with social media information. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53102 forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products By: Egan, Mark Abstract—I study how brokers distort View Details
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Dina Gerdeman