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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … identification strategies used, critically assess strengths and weaknesses, discuss connections with theory, and draw out potential … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …
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Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …
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This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … forthcoming NBER book. It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. The paper quantifies the cost … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …
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, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …
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This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …
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increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; and (2) flood events reduce … output in the short run while their impact on firm entry and employment is limited. Motivated by these findings, we construct … a spatial equilibrium model to characterize how flood risk shapes firms' location choices and workers' employment, which …
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