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Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey … points to an important role of hiring standards for matching efficiency and for the impact of labor market policy, whereas …
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report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs … labor market outcomes in the United States …
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We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district level and individual-level voting data, combined with party ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure...
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According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...
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This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
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In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor … research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor demand curve may equally result in job polarization. In this study …, we assess the impact of labor supply shifts on job polarization. To this end, we determine unconditional wage …
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The use of social contacts in the labor market is widespread. This paper investigates the impact of personal …
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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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I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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