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The impact of public employment on labour market performance : evidence from African countries
Ranzani, Marco; Tuccio, Michele - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 4/6, pp. 298-301
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The opioid crisis in Appalachia : the effect of blue-collar employment
Maguire, Karen; Miranda, Arthur Santos; Winters, John V. - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 18, pp. 1480-1484
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Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance
Hall, Emma P. - 2010
Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...
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Direct and indirect effects of new business formation on regional employment
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - In: Applied economics letters 12 (2005) 9, pp. 545-548
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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA
McLaren, John - 2010
Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Kline, Patrick - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local job creation efforts are distortionary. We develop a stylized model of frictional local labor...
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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy : A Local Labor Market Approach
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2019
local employment and payroll in nontradable industries and in total, while having no effect on employment in tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868351
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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks Through Firms’ Internal Networks
Giroud, Xavier - 2016
's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms …-level employment with respect to house prices in other counties in which the firm has establishments. At the same time, establishments …
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The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016
By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of...
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The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2018
sector and the large decline in employment rates and hours worked among prime-aged Americans since 2000. We use cross …-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … decline in a local area in the 2000s had large and persistent negative effects on local employment rates, hours worked and …
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