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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion
, 2002
"... The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates an ..."
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in the years immediately following entry is associated with the closing of both small and large retail establishments. At the same time, retail employment in neighboring counties declines by approximately 30 jobs, and wholesale employment in the entered county declines by a similar number.
County
, 2006
"... PLEASE READ: As you complete this form, read the instructions carefully. Use your keyboard’s “Tab ” key to move through the fields of this form. Select check-boxes and enter text as indicated. Save, and print. New applicant (this MS4 has no previous application for MS4 coverage on file at MPCA) Appl ..."
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PLEASE READ: As you complete this form, read the instructions carefully. Use your keyboard’s “Tab ” key to move through the fields of this form. Select check-boxes and enter text as indicated. Save, and print. New applicant (this MS4 has no previous application for MS4 coverage on file at MPCA
Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs
- Science
, 1997
"... The importance of terrestrial-aquatic linkages was evaluated by a large-scale, 3-year exclusion of terrestrial leaf litter inputs to a forest stream. Exclusion of leaf litter had a strong bottom-up effect that was propagated through detritivores to predators. Most invertebrate taxa in the predominan ..."
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in the predominant habitat declined in either abundance, biomass, or both, compared with taxa in a nearby reference stream. However, fauna in moss habitats changed little, indicating that different food webs exist in habitats of different geomor-phology. Thus, the ecosystem-level consequences of excluding detrital
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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syndication networks are not particularly dense. As a proportion of all the relationships between every pair of VCs that could be present, the density of undirected ties peaked at 4.5% in 1987-1991 and has been declining to below 2% since. Directed ties (i.e., those between lead VC and syndicate members
The macroeconomic implications of rising wage inequality in the United States
- Journal of Political Economy. forthcoming
, 2010
"... This paper explores the macroeconomic and welfare implications of the sharp rise in U.S. wage inequality (1967-1996). In the data, cross-sectional earnings variation increased substantially more than wage variation, due to a sharp rise in the wage-hours correlation. At the same time, inequality in h ..."
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also allows us to investigate the welfare costs of the rise in inequality: we find that the unconditional expected welfare loss is equivalent to a 5 percent decline in lifetime income for the worst-affected cohorts, those entering the labor market in the mid 1980’s. Ex post, these costs are widely
2005) “Are Banks Really Special? New Evidence from the FDICInduced Failure of Healthy
- Banks,” American Economic Review
"... The FDIC used cross-guarantees in order to close 38 subsidiaries of First RepublicBank Corporation in 1988 and 18 subsidiaries of First City BankCorporation in 1992 when lead banks from each of these Texas-based bank holding companies were declared insolvent. I use this plausibly exogenous failure o ..."
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of otherwise healthy subsidiary banks as a natural experiment in order to study the impact of bank failure on local area real economic activity. The resolution of these institutions was associated with a significant decline in failed bank lending that led to a permanent reduction in real county income of about
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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of social structure that I call the network society for reasons that hopefully will become apparent. I shall summarize below the main features of these transformations, in a sequential order that does not imply hierarchy of causation in any way. We have entered a new technological paradigm, centred around
The rise in the disability rolls and the decline in unemployment
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
, 2003
"... Between 1984 and 2000, the share of non-elderly adults receiving benefits from the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs rose by seventy percent. We trace this remarkable growth to reduced screening stringency and, due to the interaction between gr ..."
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in 1984, DI application and recipiency rates became two to three times as responsive to plausibly exogenous labor demand shocks. Contemporaneously, male and female high school dropouts became increasingly likely to exit the labor force rather than enter unemployment in the event of an adverse shock
NAPA COUNTY
"... The Huichica Creek watershed is in the southwest corner of Napa County. The creek flows in a generally southern direction into Hudeman Slough, which enters the Napa River via the Napa Slough. Huichica Creek consists of approximately eight miles of channel. ..."
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The Huichica Creek watershed is in the southwest corner of Napa County. The creek flows in a generally southern direction into Hudeman Slough, which enters the Napa River via the Napa Slough. Huichica Creek consists of approximately eight miles of channel.
ALAMEDA COUNTY
"... Codornices Creek drains an urbanized watershed of about 1.1 square miles. The creek is channelized or lies underground through a large portion of its 2.9-mile length. It flows west from the Berkeley Hills, entering central San Francisco Bay at the border of the cities of Albany and Berkeley. ..."
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Codornices Creek drains an urbanized watershed of about 1.1 square miles. The creek is channelized or lies underground through a large portion of its 2.9-mile length. It flows west from the Berkeley Hills, entering central San Francisco Bay at the border of the cities of Albany and Berkeley.
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