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The problem of economic development,' as Lucas (1988) states it, is the problem of accounting for the observed diversity in levels and rates of growth of per capita income across countries and across time. We study conditions under which capital mobility and labor mobility (two seemingly...
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absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …
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Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …
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A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …
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cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …
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We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...
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We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing …
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