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We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series … (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business … full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming …
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We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
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I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …
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employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …
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, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant … - but within cross-border commuting zones - we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
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We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …
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We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following … market networks are linked not just to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs but to re-employment specifically at …
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Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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