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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … leading explanations for occupational employment changes, price and employment growth are positively related. Strong … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …
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less and face more employment turnover. These adjustments do not affect profits, but lead to greater investments and sales … young female part-time employment. …
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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …
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employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …
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routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … household, but has no sizable efficect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …
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probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …
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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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