Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. Hamilton will represent the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial ...

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Taking into account the recessionary effect of tariffs dramatically brings down the optimal unilateral tariff level derived in standard trade theory. You may have unlimited free access to working ...

We argue that college students’ field-of-study choices significantly influence how economies respond to labor market disruptions. To do so, we develop and estimate a framework featuring ...

Amid rising global interest in state interventions, this paper examines how China’s infrastructure investments—a key macroeconomic policy tool—affect firm productivity. We focus on a policy that ...

We present new data on the regulation of entry of start-up firms in 75 countries. The data set contains information on the number of procedures, official time, and official cost that a start-up must ...

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare ...

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