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Does Immigration Increase Japanese GDP?
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study analyzes the correlation between emigration intake and economic
Training in the Captured Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Despite the importance of firm level training in the MENA region for alleviating the issues of high youth unemployment rates, skills mismatches in the labor market, and the long transition periods between the education and ...
Distress During Unemployment: The Role of Unemployment Insurance
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Models of utility maximization posit that individuals with more income are able to purchase goods and services so as to attain higher levels of utility. Existing literature has conceptualized measures of psychological ...
Wages and Length-of-Stay in the United States: An Analysis of Return Migration Among Mexican Migrants
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The political rhetoric on immigration in the United States often misrepresents U.S.-Mexico migration trends by focusing on the flow of Mexican immigrants into the United States. The reality is that many migrants return to ...
Essays on the Role of Ethnicity in Labor Market Outcomes and Human Capital
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the existence and cause of occupational hierarchies among immigrant worker groups in the United States. It first documents the persistent ranking of immigrant labor groups ...
Essays on Estimated Labor Search Models
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Search theory has proven to be a very useful tool to analyze and understand the impact of labor market policies and institutional arrangements on labor market outcomes. Structural econometrics, on the other hand, seeks to ...
SLAVES TO THE WAGE?: THE EFFECT OF RISING HOUSEHOLD INDEBTEDNESS ON LABOR PROTECTIONS
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The global economy has seen substantial changes since the era of market liberalization in the 1980’s that have formed the basis of the so-called Washington Consensus. An important result of more market-oriented policies ...
The Timing and Size of Layoffs: Theory and Evidence
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Mass layoffs affect hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers each year and are an important issue for labor market policy both in recession and non-recession times. This thesis studies the causes and consequences of abrupt ...
Three Essays on Labor Markets of South Asian Countries
(Georgetown University, 2013)
South Asia has been experiencing robust economic growth of about 6% over the last decade. However, it is also the home to about 44% of the world's poor. About 571 million people of the region live under $1.25 a day. About ...
The Walker Effect: Evaluating the Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws in Wisconsin
(Georgetown University, 2019)
It is widely believed that right-to-work laws produce adverse outcomes for workers. For instance, it is well documented that these type of policy interventions weaken labor unions by limiting their funding sources to workers ...