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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
distribution of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first but significant evidence of the second …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147559
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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and practice (SciSIPP). This paper describes the contents, methodology and use of the public online COMETS (Connecting Outcome Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science)...
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Mismatch Unemployment
topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...
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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession
Leuz, Christian; Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The paper examines the effect of international regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration. We analyze directives in the European Union (EU) that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. This regulatory harmonization should make it less costly for those who work in the...
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
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International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set
Kim, Jinyoung; Marschke, Gerald Roger Marschke, Jr.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We describe the construction of a panel data set from the U.S. patent data that contains measures of inventors' life-cycle R&D productivity--patents and patent citations. We match the data set to information on the U.S. pharmaceutical and semiconductor firms for whom they work. In this paper we...
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Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
I investigate why workers' probability of leaving unemployment has fallen since 1900 by estimating the impact of a large government transfer, the first major pension program in the United States, covering Union Army veterans of the Civil War. The pension, because of the program's rules, was a...
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...
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What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?
Solon, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
“Multigenerational mobility” refers to the associations in socioeconomic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarizing the longstanding but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility. It then discusses multiple theoretical...
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; Brummund, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
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