Shawn Rohlin

Biographic Data

ID1203199
NAMEShawn Rohlin
GIVEN NAMESShawn
FAMILY NAMERohlin
SIGNATUREROHLIN S
AFFILIATIONSKent State University
ORCID0000-0002-6956-1012
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Do businesses benefit from labor hoarding

    Open AccessNadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Nadia Greenhalgh‐Stanley et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2026

    This paper examines whether firms that retained more employees than predicted during the Great Recession, often termed “labor hoarding,” experienced benefits over 7 years. Using establishment-level data from the Infogroup Historical Business Database, we estimate labor hoarding and assess its impact on firm survival, employment, and sales in the recovery period. We find that labor hoarding firms were significantly more likely to survive, with the…

  • Local employment multipliers for large publicly subsidized firms

    Open AccessAndrew Hanson, Shawn RohlinARTICLEJournal of Regional Science2024

    This paper provides estimates of local employment multipliers from large, publicly subsidized firms. We use a synthetic control weighted difference‐in‐difference estimation procedure that matches treated areas with comparison areas to generate local employment multiplier estimates. We show that local employment multiplier estimates have a high degree of uncertainty, with a wide range of point estimates (both positive and negative) and varying deg…

  • The effect of property taxes on businesses

    Open AccessAli Enami, Curtis Lockwood Reynolds et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2023

  • Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work

    Open AccessJoel A Elvery, Joel Elvery et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2023Cited by: 1References: 30

    Using tract-level US Census data and triple-difference estimators, the authors test whether firms increase their use of part-time workers when faced with capped wage subsidies. By limiting the maximum subsidy per worker, such subsidies create incentives for firms to increase the share of their payroll that is eligible for the subsidy by increasing use of part-time or low-wage workers. Results suggest that firms located in federal Empowerment Zone…

  • Labor Unions and Workplace Safety

    Open AccessL Li, Shawn Rohlin et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2022Cited by: 1References: 17

    The authors examine the effect of labor unions on workplace safety. For identification, they exploit the timing and outcome of union elections, using establishments in which elections narrowly fail as a comparison group for establishments in which elections narrowly pass. Data on elections come from the National Labor Relations Board, and data on workplace safety come from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The results indicate th…

  • Firm formation and survival in the shale boom

    Open AccessMark Partridge, Mark D Partridge et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2020

  • A toolkit for evaluating spatially targeted urban redevelopment incentives

    Andrew Hanson, Shawn RohlinARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2018References: 6

    This article offers a comprehensive and practical guide to program evaluation methods as they apply to spatially targeted urban redevelopment incentives (STURIs). We review the basic workings of several common program evaluation methods (interrupted time series, differencing methods, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, border methods, and matching methods), citing influential work for each and highlighting choices that specifically …

  • How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling

    Open AccessWilliam C Horrace, Shawn M Rohlin et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2016

    Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) use the daylight saving time shift to develop a police racial profiling test that is based on differences in driver race visibility and (hence) the race distribution of traffic stops across daylight and darkness. However, urban environments may be well lit at night, eroding the power of their test. We refine their test using streetlight location data in Syracuse, New York, and the results change in the direction of fin…

  • The effects of location-based tax policies on the distribution of household income

    Open AccessCurtis Lockwood Reynolds, Shawn M Rohlin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2015Cited by: 10References: 29

  • Tax avoidance and business location in a state border model

    Open AccessShawn Rohlin, Stuart S Rosenthal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2014Cited by: 8References: 32

  • State minimum wages and business location

    Open AccessShawn M Rohlin, Shawn RohlinARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2011Cited by: 3References: 13