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that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period … suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment …
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Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S.,...
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How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes … borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions result in inefficient automation. Firms fail to internalize that … where the government can tax automation but lacks redistributive tools to fully overcome borrowing frictions. The …
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measure of technology penetration, we estimate changes in regional employment and wages affected by automation technologies …This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology … along with the reallocation of workers between sectors. We find that labor market adjustments to automation technologies …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be … estimated by regressing the change in employment and wages on the exposure to robots in each local labor market--defined from … the national penetration of robots into each industry and the local distribution of employment across industries. Using …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … specialization in explaining the impact of automation on regional employment. …
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. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to … a positive effect on firms’ employment growth rate. However, dividing the sample into manufacturing and service firms, a …
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This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …
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