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Neighborhood Effects : Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in...
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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Spatial differences in labor market performance are large and highly persistent. Using data from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job finding, and job filling within each country. This robust...
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464431
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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...
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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467881
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478924
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The Industrial Revolution in Services
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2019
The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have increased their share of employment, and the expansion is...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Costa, Rui - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...
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COVID-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481846
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Financial Frictions and Employment during the Great Depression
Benmelech, Efraim - 2017
We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of financing frictions in firms' employment decisions, we use a novel, hand-collected dataset of...
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