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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong …This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial …
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. Consequently, the goal of our evaluation is to assess the impact of the policy on equity, debt and employment. Using various …
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groups. Given wages, the direct employment effect of a reduction in weekly normal hours is negligible for all three groups … groups. Given wages, the direct employment effect of a reduction in weekly normal hours is negligible for all three groups …In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999 2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …
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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment …
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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups … effects on employment and hours …
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