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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...

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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …

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High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms

Borovičková, Katarína - 2017

We develop a new approach to measuring the correlation between the types of matched workers and firms. Our approach accurately measures the correlation in data sets with many workers and firms, but a small number of independent observations for each. Using administrative data from Austria, we...

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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Voting on a Trade Agreement : Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot, 59% of Costa Rican adult citizens cast a vote on...

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What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

Cullen, Zoë B.; Li, Shengwu; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees' compensation with each other, companies are still allowed to acquire and use more aggregated data provided by third parties. Most medium and large firms report using this type of data to set salaries, a...

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Job Transitions and Employee Earnings After Acquisitions : Linking Corporate and Worker Outcomes

Arnold, David; Milligan, Kevin; Moon, Terry; Tavakoli, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper connects changes in employer characteristics through job transitions to employee earnings following mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using firm balance sheet data linked to individual earnings data in Canada and a matched difference-in-differences design, we find that after M&As...

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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This Job is 'Getting Old : ' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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