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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run

Hanson, Gordon - 2016

How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the … contribution of changes in relative labor-supply to bilateral migration in the 2000s and then apply this model to project future … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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Immigration, trade, and the labor market

Abowd, John M. (ed.); Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor) - 1991

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What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?

Friebel, Guido - 2019

Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. Larger referral bonuses increase referrals and decrease referral quality, though the increase in referrals from having an ERP is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition...

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Have National Business Cycles Become More Synchronized?

Bordo, Michael D. - 2003

In this paper, we document evidence on the synchronization of business cycles across 16 countries over the past century and a quarter, demarcated into four exchange rate regimes. We find using three different methodologies that there is a secular trend towards increased synchronization for much...

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

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus …

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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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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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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...

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The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy

Araújo, Aloisio Pessoa de; Ferreira, Rafael; Lagaras, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Judicial decisions in bankruptcy are often influenced by the goal to preserve employment in financially distressed firms. What are the effects of these pro-labor decisions on workers' earnings and employment trajectories? We construct a new court-level measure of pro-labor bias based on the text...

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