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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
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wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …
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import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …
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age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is …
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have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …
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Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...
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technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United …Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …
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