Assessing productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research and policy debate. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to productivity spillovers; however, an alternative, much less emphasized channel ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150437

Creating criminals?

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May 02, 2018

Restricting immigrants’ ability to work causes an increase in financially motivated crime.

www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-employment-crime-income-san-antonio

How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?

By Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018

US housing voucher holders pay their landlord a fraction of household income and the government pays the rest, up to a rent ceiling. We study how two types of changes to the rent ceiling affect landlords and tenants. A policy that makes vouchers more gene...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150176

The Role of Startups in Structural Transformation

By Robert C. Dent, Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley, and Ayşegül Şahin

American Economic Review, May 2016

The U.S. economy has been going through a striking structural transformation--the secular reallocation of employment across sectors--over the past several decades. We propose a decomposition framework to assess the contributions of various margins of firm...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20161053

Putting a price on prejudice

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June 08, 2018

Workplace discrimination is expensive. At what point does it become too costly for the discriminator?

www.aeaweb.org/research/price-of-prejudice-workplace-hiring-discrimination-denmark

Protecting American jobs?

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Immigration barriers intended to boost domestic wages and employment may offer little help to US workers.

www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/immigration-barriers-bracero-program-farm-workers

Taking professors' privilege

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July 20, 2018

How does denying researchers full rights to their work affect startup activity at universities?

www.aeaweb.org/research/professor-privilege-university-startup-activity-patent

Interview Tables at ASSA 2019

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Learn about Employment Interview Tables and Disclosure Codes for the meeting

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Job killer or creator?

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What impact did a $15 per hour minimum wage have on the employment rate in three cities?

www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/labor-demand-minimum-wage-impact-jobs

The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

By Abel Brodeur

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2018

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks by exploiting the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks. The findings suggest that successful attacks, in comparison to failed attacks, reduce the number of jobs and...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20160556