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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334338
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Globalization, Trade Imbalances and Inequality
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Traiberman, Sharon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the role of trade imbalances for the distributional consequences of globalization. We do so through the … that modelling trade imbalances can lead to stark differences between short- and long-run consequences of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334406
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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem
Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322750
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Disentangling Various Explanations for the Declining Labor Share : Evidence from Millions of Firm Records
Harrison, Ann E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
companies to disentangle the role of technological change, market power, and globalization in driving a fall in the labor share … measured using four firm and twenty firm concentration ratios and globalization is measured as export shares in total revenues … smaller. Finally, the evidence on globalization is mixed: trade shares are at times negatively associated with the labor share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468215
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Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes : Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban
Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A weakening of labor protection policies is often invoked as one cause of observed monopsony power and the decline in labor's share of income, but little evidence exists on the causal impact of labor policies on wage markdowns. Using confidential Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468224
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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437007
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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare
Baqaee, David; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide a method to measure welfare, in money-metric terms, taking into account expectations about the future. Our two key assumptions are that (1) the expenditure function is separable between the present and the future, and (2) there are some households that do not face idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576596
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Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity
Black, Sandra E.; Duzett, Neil; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While there is substantial research on the intergenerational persistence of economic outcomes such as income and wealth, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall measure of health) across generations using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247955
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250138
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International College Students' Impact on the US Skilled Labor Supply
Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of these remain in the US after graduating and contribute to the high skilled labor supply in US labor markets. In this paper, we identify and estimate by how much one more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388787