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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 ...
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 ...
Health Care Costs and Barriers to Entry: Do Labor Market Regulations for Nursing Have a Relationship with State-Level Health Care Costs?
(Georgetown University, 2019)
U.S. healthcare costs are rising at an alarming rate. While this paper mentions healthcare market effects, the focus of this paper is on the supply side, specifically regulations that affect the number of healthcare staff. ...