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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...

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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States

Amiti, Mary - 2006

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies

Kovak, Brian K. - 2017

Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator

Cengiz, Doruk - 2019

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. To implement our approach, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the...

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Merger Guidelines for the Labor Market

Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While the labor market implications of mergers have been historically ignored as "out of market" effects, recent actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) place buyer market power (i.e., monopsony) at the forefront of antitrust policy. We develop a theory of multi-plant ownership and monopsony...

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection

Kroft, Kory; Mourifié, Ismael; Vayalinkal, Atom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which...

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Outsourcing Price Decisions : Evidence from U.S. 9802 Imports

Swenson, Deborah - 2005

This paper studies U.S. overseas assembly imports to identify whether factors related to information or search costs appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S. overseas assembly imports were characterized by incomplete pass-through of production and trade...

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Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

Borga, Maria - 2004

Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S. firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations. Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital...

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