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The dynamic impact of immigration on natives' labor market outcomes: Evidence from Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1027-1045

This paper studies the short and medium run impact of highly skilled immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants'...

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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Gender and labor retrenchment in Chinese state owned enterprises: Investigation using firm-level panel data

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Pandey, Manish - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395

In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the subject rely on individual-level data. In this...

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Wage and employment determination in volatile times: Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 2, pp. 131-159

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Loebbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization …

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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of different skill types or to capital. Factors of production have well …-defined comparative advantage across tasks, which governs the pattern of substitution between skill groups. Technological change can: (1 …

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The Effects of Metropolitan Job Growth on the Size Distribution of Family Income

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Enhancing Income Convergence in Central Europe after EU Accession

Lenain, Patrick - 2004

After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...

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The Determinants of Employment and Earnings in Indonesia : A Multinomial Selection Approach

Comola, Margherita - 2009

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in Indonesia. The Indonesian labour market is segmented, with a majority of workers engaged in informal-sector occupations, and earnings data are available only for formal-sector...

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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation

Herd, Richard - 2010

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

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