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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations

Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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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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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately, state-level data. I show that...

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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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Governance and the law

Weltbank - 2017

Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental questions, which are at the heart of development … interests. The process of these interactions is what this Report calls governance, and the space in which these interactions … positive change. This Report reveals that governance can mitigate, even overcome, power asymmetries to bring about more …