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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 1996
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …
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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2009
unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463483
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456633
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...
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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
workers produce more product varieties and thereby increase labor demand. We find that skills are associated with growth in … disproportionately large impact on unemployment during the current recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461723
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New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging
Fogel, Robert William - 1993
The aim of this paper is to describe the full dimensions of a new and rapidly growing research program that uses new data sources on food consumption, anthropometric measures, genealogies, and life-cycle histories to shed light on secular trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the...
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The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America : Timing and Mechanisms
Fogel, Robert William - 1990
The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first wave of the decline and virtually none thereafter....
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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479144
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Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations
Adão, Rodrigo - 2020
to measurable, short-horizon changes in labor market outcomes within and between generations. We then empirically analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479149