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To better understand the tight post-pandemic labor market in the US, we decompose the decline in aggregate hours worked into the extensive (fewer people working) and the intensive margin changes (workers working fewer hours). Although the pre-existing trend of lower labor force participation...
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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 … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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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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We examine the employment effects of 3G mobile internet expansion in developing countries. We find that 3G … significantly increases the labor force participation rate of women and the employment rates of both men and women. Our results … suggest that 3G affects the type of jobs and there is a distinct gender dimension to these effects. Men transition away from …
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local labor markets over time, we establish a new fact. Even though both shocks drastically reduced employment in the … manufacturing sector, only robots led to a sizable decline in population size. We provide evidence that negative employment …
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reviving domestic manufacturing and employment, paradoxically resulted in a significant drop in hiring domestic talent. The …
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We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by temporary layoffs and later recalls. Taking these into account, we show that … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment … predictions that COVID would dramatically and permanently change the way we live and work. We do see that employment has …
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Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment … EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and … non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups …
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We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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