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News: the US Credit Downgrade(nominalnews.com)
1 points by MPLan 1y ago|2 comments
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by MPLan 1y ago
On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the rating of US debt from AAA (Aaa) to AA+ (Aa1). What does this mean and what does economics have to tell us about it.
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Modelling the Impact of Tariffs(nominalnews.com)
2 points by MPLan 1y ago|0 comments
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Why Import Tariffs Are Identical to Export Taxes(nominalnews.com)
4 points by MPLan 1y ago|1 comments
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Not Incentivized yet Efficient: Working from Home in the Public Sector(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Fenizia and Kirchmaier (2025) (“FK”) studied the impacts of working from home by public sector employees. Workers assigned to work from home end up recording about 9%-10% more cases compared to workers in the office. To read more details on
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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy(aeaweb.org)
1 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Clemens, Lewis and Postel (2018) (“CLP”) looked at the impacts of the termination of the Bracero Agreement. The original reasoning for cancelling the Bracero Agreement was to improve wages of US citizens in the agriculture sector, especiall
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H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success(pubsonline.informs.org)
3 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
A firm that goes from having about half of their H-1B applications succeeding to winning all of their H-1B applications (firms on average apply for 2.5 H-1B visas in a given year): - sees a 4.5 percentage point (10% more likely) increase in
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The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
College-educated immigration is often considered to reduce local job-hiring and push down wages. It appears, however, that an additional H-1B lottery win increases both immigrant and local employment. Moreover, immigration reduces offshorin
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Impact of Sports Betting Legalization on Household Finances(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
In 2018, the US Supreme Court abolished the federal sports betting ban. Many states legalized sports betting soon after. So what has been the impact of sports betting legalization on household finances - did it impact saving or did it shift
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Collusion through Common Leadership [pdf](wwws.law.northwestern.edu)
167 points by MPLan 2y ago|79 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Common leadership, via the sharing of board members, significantly increased the likelihood that tech firms would not hire each others' workers. This form of 'no-poaching' may have had much bigger impacts on wage suppression:
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by MPLan 2y ago
This is a good question that we don't have the answer to yet. Generally, other research has found that the college wage premium grows with age (i.e. a 50 year old with college vs a 50 year old without college degree makes even more in
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Is College Signaling or Human Capital Appreciation(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by MPLan 2y ago|3 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Do the extra years of schooling at college increase people’s skills or is college just an expensive signal? The study by Arteaga (2018) suggests it’s the former. After reducing the required coursework at a university, wages of graduates fel
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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by MPLan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Using entry of Starbucks cafes into neighborhoods, researches found that the creation of third places leads to increased business formation. Overview of the paper and the methods here - https://www.nominalnews.com/p/cof
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Carbon Tariffs 101(nber.org)
1 points by MPLan 2y ago|0 comments
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by MPLan 2y ago
Bossler, Chittka and Schank found that after the second minimum wage increase (from EUR to 10.45 to EUR 12.00), average wages of the people who were earning less than EUR 12 went up by 6%. Moreover, there was no noticeable reduction in empl
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A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: nothing crazy(paperswithcode.com)
69 points by MPLan 2y ago|113 comments