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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

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This job is "getting old" : measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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Retaining through training : even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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On the persistence of the China shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...

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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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