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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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point. But a substantial unexplained gap remains: women who have continuous full-time employment, have had no children and …
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In Finland the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first 10 years after labor market entry accounting most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among university graduates and considers several explanations...
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wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
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of employment in middle-skill production and clerical occupations - so-called job polarization. I study whether job … skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … most productive firms, and an increase in real wages due to the increased labour demand by these firms. Using data on … import tariffs is related to an increase in real wages, and that the elimination of the U.S. import tariff has contributed to …
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How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
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