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American University, Department of Economics

Working Papers

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2008

2008-20 Unemployment exacts a high cost to its victims, not only in lost income, but also in terms of quality of life (insecurity, depression, abandoned families, divorce, suicide, poorer health). It also exacts a high cost to society in terms of lost output, foregone tax revenue, depreciating human capital, and increased costs of welfare, crime, and health care. Yet modern wealthy societies have, principally for the sake of price stability and to avoid the budget costs of a full remedy, chosen to tolerate a substantial level of permanent unemployment. This article explores the moral conditions of this social choice and its rationality in terms of social welfare. It makes and develops support for two claims: society’s tolerance of involuntary unemployment is morally wrong, and it is socially and economically irrational. It concludes that government should guarantee employment by serving as employer of last resort and where appropriate provide for retraining
by Jon D. Wisman [Downloadable!]
2008-19 Household Saving, Class Identitiy, and Conspicuous Consumption
by Jon D. Wisman [Downloadable!]
2008-18 Coral Games and the Core of Cores
by James Bono [Downloadable!]
2008-17 Adapting Strategic Risk in Corporate Tournaments
by James Bono [Downloadable!]
2008-16 Consumption, sentiment, and economic news
by Martha Starr [Downloadable!]
2008-15 Religion, Social Capital, and Business Bankruptcy in the United States, 1921-1932
by Bradley A. Hansen & Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2008-14 Antitrust and Trade Policy: Are Legislators Consistent?
by Robert M. Feinberg & Thomas A. Husted & Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2008-13 Declining Secondary Enrollment in Albania: What Drives Household Decisions?
by Mieke Meurs & Juna Miluka & Thomas Hertz [Downloadable!]
2008-12 Does Trade Adjustment Assistance Make a Difference?
by Kara M. Reynolds & John S. Palatucci [Downloadable!]
2008-11 Understanding the Southern African‘Anomaly’Poverty, Endemic Disease, and HIV
by Larry Sawers & Eileen Stillwaggon [Downloadable!]
2008-10 Measuring the Quality of Employment in the Informal Sector
by John Messier & Maria Floro [Downloadable!]
2008-09 The Gender Dimensions of Social Networks, Unemployment and Underemployment: What Time Use Data Reveal
by Maria Sagrario Floro & Imraan Valodia & Hitomi Komatsu [Downloadable!]
2008-08 Is there a Link between Quality of Employment and Indebtedness? The Case of Urban Low-income Households in Ecuador
by Maria Floro & John Messier [Downloadable!]
2008-07 Would a North American monetary union protect Canada and Mexico against the ravages of “Dutch disease”?
by Robert A. Blecker & Mario Seccareccia [Downloadable!]
2008-05 An Examination of Entry and Competitive Performance in Rural Banking Markets
by Robert M. Feinberg & Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2008-04 External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico 1979–2006
by Robert A. Blecker [Downloadable!]
2008-03 Cofactor Infections and HIV Epidemics in Developing Countries: Implications for Treatment
by Larry Sawers & Eileen Stillwaggon & Tom Hertz [Downloadable!]
2008-02 Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households
by Ranjula Bali Swain & Maria Floro [Downloadable!]
2008-01 Let a Thousand Models Bloom: Forging Alliances with Western Universities and the Making of the New Higher Educational System in the Gulf
by John Willoughby [Downloadable!]

2007

2007-23 Socially Responsible Investment and Pro-social Change
by Martha Starr [Downloadable!]
2007-22 The Macro/Social Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility: Informational Abundance and Collective Action
by Martha Starr [Downloadable!]
2007-21 Disagreement, Regional Representation,and Federal Reserve Transcript Publication
by Ellen E. Meade [Downloadable!]
2007-20 Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness
by Christopher Crowe & Ellen E. Meade [Downloadable!]
2007-19 Heteroskedasticity-Robust Elasticities in Logarithmic and Two-Part Models
by Tom Hertz [Downloadable!]
2007-18 School Construction and Intergenerational Mobility in Indonesia
by Tom Hertz & Tamara Jayasundera [Downloadable!]
2007-17 Changes in the Volatility of Household Income in the United States: A Regional Analysis
by Tom Hertz [Downloadable!]
2007-16 A Group-Specific Measure of Intergenerational Persistence
by Tom Hertz [Downloadable!]
2007-15 The Effect of Non-Farm Income on Investment in Bulgarian Family Farming
by Tom Hertz [Downloadable!]
2007-14 The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
by Tom Hertz & Mieke Meurs & Sibel Selcuk [Downloadable!]
2007-013 The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends
by Tom Hertz & Tamara Jayasundera & Patrizio Piraino & Sibel Selcuk & Nicole Smith & Alina Verashchagina [Downloadable!]
2007-10 Is there a Link between Quality of Employment and Indebtedness? The Case of Urban Low-income Households in Ecuador
by Maria Floro & John Messier [Downloadable!]
2007-09 Determinants of the physical demand for gold: Evidence from panel data
by Martha Starr & Ky Tran [Downloadable!]
2007-08 Price Impacts of Small Firm Entry in US Manufacturing
by Robert M. Feinberg [Downloadable!]
2007-07 Merger Impacts on Investor Expectations: An Event Study for Australia
by Brian Diepold & Robert M. Feinberg & David K.Round & Jeremy Tustin [Downloadable!]
2007-06 The Biggest Losers (and Winners) from U.S. Trade Liberalization
by Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2007-05 Why Are So Many WTO Disputes Abandoned?
by Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2007-04 Valuing Substitute Families:Financial Support for Foster and Adoptive Families
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen & Paul Jacobs [Downloadable!]
2007-03 Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2007-02 The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations: The Output Impact of Real Exchange Rate Shocks in Developing Countries that Export Manufactures
by Robert A. Blecker & Arslan Razmi [Downloadable!]
2007-01 Transracial Adoption of Black Children: An Economic Analysis
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen & Daniel Pollack [Downloadable!]
2007-03 Gender and Time Dimensions of Informal Workers’ Well-being: Evidence from Thailand
by Anant Pichetpongsa & Maria Sagrario Floro [Downloadable!]

2006

2006-16 Legal Rules and Bankruptcy Rates: Historical Evidence from the States
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen & Bradley A. Hansen [Downloadable!]
2006-15 The Value of Adoption
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2006-14 Tradeoffs in Formulating a Consistent National Policy on Adoption
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen & Daniel Pollack [Downloadable!]
2006-13 The Distribution of a Federal Entitlement: The Case of Adoption Assistance
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2006-12 From Agreement to Application. A Cross Country Analysis of Injury Determinants under the WTO Antidumping Agreement
by Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2006-11 Unpublished Statistical Appendix to: Price Competition and the Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Estimates of Short-Run Growth Effects
by Robert A. Blecker & Arslan Razmi [Downloadable!]
2006-10 Why do the poor leave the safety net in Mexico? A study of the effects of conditionality on dropouts
by Carola Álvarez & Florencia Devoto & Paul Winters [Downloadable!]
2006-09 Macroeconomic dimensions of social economics: Saving, the stock market, and pension systems
by Martha A. Starr [Downloadable!]
2006-08 Bank Runs in Emerging-Market Economies: Evidence from Turkey’s Special Finance Houses
by Martha A. Starr & Rasim Yilmaz [Downloadable!]
2006-07 The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for US Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis
by Robert A. Blecker [Downloadable!]
2006-06 Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?
by Arslan Razmi & Robert A. Blecker [Downloadable!]
2006-05 Macroeconomic and Structural Constraints on Export-Led Growth in Mexico
by Robert A. Blecker [Downloadable!]
2006-04 Friendly Fire? The Impact of US Antidumping Enforcement on US Exporters
by Robert M. Feinberg & Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2006-03 Dumping on U.S. Farmers: Are There Biases in Global Antidumping Regulations?
by Kara Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2006-02 Anticipated versus Realized Benefits: Can Event Studies be Used to Predict the Impact of New Regulations?
by Kara M. Reynolds [Downloadable!]
2006-01 Demographic Externalities from Poverty Programs in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
by Guy Stecklov & Paul Winters & Jessica Todd & Ferdinando Regalia [Downloadable!]

2005

2005-15 Using Subsidies to Promote the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2005-14 The Role of Path Dependence in the Development of U.S. Bankruptcy Law, 1880-1938
by Bradley A. Hansen & Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2005-12 Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse: Teaching the Economic Approach to Empirical Research
by Bradley A. Hansen & Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2005-11 New Evidence on Race Discrimination under "Separate but Equal"
by Bradley A. Hansen & Mary Eschelbach Hansen [Downloadable!]
2005-09 The Economics of Adoption of Children from Foster Care
by Mary Eschelbach Hansen & Bradley A. Hansen [Downloadable!]

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