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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US
Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …
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How Good are Proxies for Legal Status? : Evidence from the Legalization of Two Million Mexicans
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan; Zhang, Chengguo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). We find that occupation and program use variables in a prominent proxy for legal status poorly detect this event. A decade after legalization, the share of...
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Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience
Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
municipalities from 2010-2015 on the internal migration of natives. Using Korean survey data we are able to distinguish between … generating little net native migration, changed the composition of natives in Korean municipalities …
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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis
Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...
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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap
Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....
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Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers
Jardim, Ekaterina S.; Long, Mark C.; Plotnick, Robert D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The boundary discontinuity method of causal inference may yield misleading results if a policy's impacts do not stop at the border of the implementing jurisdiction. We use geographically precise longitudinal employment data documenting worker job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the...
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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education
Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the … labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for …
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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