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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States
Nordhaus, William D. - 2006
The year 2005 brought record numbers of hurricanes and storm damages to the United States. Was this a foretaste of … may be underestimated by current storm models. Fourth, 2005 appears to have been a quadruple outlier, involving a record … landfall in the United States, and an intense storm hitting the most vulnerable high-value region in the country …
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Taken by Storm : Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration
Mahajan, Parag - 2017
How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less attractive vis-à-vis migration destinations, fixed costs can prevent increased migration. We examine migration responses to hurricanes, which reduce the attractiveness of origin...
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The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts
Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and...
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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989
Cramton, Peter C. - 1995
It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...
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Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894 : New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism
Currie, Janet - 1995
The origins of American exceptionalism þ the apolitical nature of American labor unions compared to their European counterparts þ have puzzled labor historians. Recently, the hypothesis has been advanced that organized labor abandoned attempts to win reform through legislation because the...
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The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes
Arnold Lyon, Melissa; Kraft, Matthew A.; Steinberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The U.S. has witnessed a resurgence of labor activism, with teachers at the forefront. We examine how teacher strikes affect compensation, working conditions, and productivity with an original dataset of 772 teacher strikes generating 48 million student days idle between 2007 and 2023. Using an...
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Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI
Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I examine the specialization of US commuting zones in AI-related occupations over the 2000 to 2018 period. I define AI-related jobs based on keywords in Census occupational titles. Using the approach in Lin (2011) to identify new work, I measure job growth related to AI by weighting employment...
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...
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The Geography of Unemployment
Bilal, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Unemployment rates differ widely across local labor markets. I offer new empirical evidence that high local unemployment emerges because of elevated local job losing rates. Local employers, rather than local workers, account for most of spatial gaps in job stability. I then propose a theory in...
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