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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
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bureaucracy. Using a novel dataset with objective measures of labor inspections and fines across countries, we show that Weberian … bureaucracies are more likely to enforce labor standards. We provide OLS and 2SLS estimates that address endogeneity concerns and … politicized bureaucracies underinvest in labor inspection because elected officials have short-term horizons and do not …
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pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …
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reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the …. Secondly, climate change impacts labor supply through absenteeism, shirking, and altering work-time patterns, depending on the … influence labor allocation and catalyze sectoral reallocation. Higher temperatures are also linked to increased migration. But …
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children … extent than educational support. We also show evidence indicating a decline in maternal labor force participation and a rise … in flexible labor arrangements as mothers allocated more hours to child-related duties. Our study also provides …
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labor market outcomes made up of employment, time spent working, capacity to work and job search by 0.16 standard deviations …
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The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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