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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper offers an alternative theory for the increase in unemployment and wage inequality experienced in the United … change increases skilled wages, reduces unskilled wages and increases the unemployment rate of both skilled and unskilled …
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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 5, pp. 1259-1278
the composition of jobs, increasing the demand for skills, wage inequality, and unemployment. I provide some evidence that …
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Gender inequality and caste : field experimental evidence from India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Wang, … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 190 (2021), pp. 111-124
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184076
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Gender inequality and caste : field experimental evidence from India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Wang, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795684
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Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs: Theory and Some Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
number of good jobs. Minimum wages and unemployment insurance encourage workers to wait for higher wages, and therefore … often increase unemployment, will increase average labour productivity and may improve welfare. The paper then briefly … composition of jobs improves considerably in response to higher minimum wages and more generous unemployment benefits. …
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
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Gender preferences in job vacancies and workplace gender diversity
Card, David E.; Colella, Fabrizio; Lalive, Rafael - 2021
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Automation and Rent Dissipation : Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage losses from automation. It also reduces...
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Automation and Polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Loebbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...
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Market competition and discrimination
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
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