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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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Survival of the Best Fit : Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Plants

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002

competition in their industry. As a result, US manufacturing is reallocated over time towards industries that are more capital and … surviving plants. Within industries, low wage import competition has the strongest effects on the least capital and skill … intensive plants. Surviving plants that switch industries move into more capital and skill intensive sectors when they face low …

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Investment Responses to Trade Liberalization : Evidence from U.S. Industries and Plants

Pierce, Justin R. - 2017

a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that industries more exposed to reductions in import tariff … uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment after the change in trade policy. Within industries, we find that this …

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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States

Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...

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