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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …
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Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete … important. Automation is beneficial at the firm level, and is more likely to displace low-skilled employment. Trade is more … likely to benefit high-skilled employment and affects industry negatively. Somewhat surprisingly, given the consensus in the …
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U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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refugees as opposed to all immigrants on aggregate. …
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treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …
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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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