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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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Producer dynamics : new evidence from micro data
Dunne, Timothy (contributor);  … - 2009
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty
Baker, Scott; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (EPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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Why Working from Home Will Stick
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
COVID-19 drove a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH). We survey more than 30,000 Americans over multiple waves to investigate whether WFH will stick, and why. Our data say that 20 percent of full workdays will be supplied from home after the pandemic ends, compared with just 5...
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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
employment opportunities for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes … offshoring) rather than those of rising market power, markups or deunionization, which themselves do not appear to play a major …
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Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
service conditional on age, employment status, earnings, working arrangements, and other controls. In short, universal access …
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
Meyer, Brent H.; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...
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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark
Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager …
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