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Structural shocks and political participation in the US
Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, Sampsa - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the large structural shocks - automation and import competition - on voter turnout during US federal elections from 2000 to 2016. Although the negative income effect of both shocks is comparable, we find that political participation decreases significantly in...
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Pandemics, global supply chains and local labor demand : evidence from 100 million posted jobs in China
Fang, Hanming; Ge, Chunmian; Huang, Hanwei; Li, Hongbin - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487137
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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets
Magli, Martina - 2022
I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local...
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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from … competition. Our results suggest that the negative and persistent eects of trade shocks we see today are not a universal feature … agricultural censuses on the county level and combine it with national trade data at the product level. We exploit the cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648044
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Trade shocks and social mobility : the intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil
César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416149
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill : evidence from the Interstate Highway System
Michaels, Guy (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003405169
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Offshoring and the polarisation of the demand for capital
Bursian, Dirk; Nagengast, Arne J. - 2018
While there is a consensus in the literature that offshoring has a polarising effect on the skill structure of labour demand, little is known about its impact on the capital side. In this paper, we analyse the effect of offshoring on the demand for capital by asset class using a rich...
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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment
Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020
This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge...
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Labor demand in the past, present and future
Graetz, Georg - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196970
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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...
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