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labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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capacity utilization. Violence acts as a negative blue-collar labor supply shock, leading to significant increase in skill …
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employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months …
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We review the theoretical justification of consumption taxes in advanced economies, providing a systematic overview of the vast public finance literature exploring how goods and services should be taxed. Our discussion focuses on both the determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation...
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Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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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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We study the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across US commuting zones over the period 2000-2020. A simple model shows that AI can automate jobs or complement workers, and illustrates how to estimate its effect by exploiting variation in a novel measure of local exposure to...
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