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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionately skilled. The brain drain from the poor...
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of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By … linking this relatively new measure of family well-being to domestic events, such as future child births, our paper reveals a …
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This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...
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with significantly lower displacement costs and on average significantly higher pre-closure earnings levels as opposed to … ultimately displaced workers. Furthermore, our results indicate that displaced workers with high pre-closure earnings experience …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
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-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working … specifications, including family fixed effects …
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China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
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-equilibrium model à la Obstfeld-Rogoff, supplemented by a resource income and a varying labor supply. Using data for Canadian provinces …
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In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
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