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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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Decomposing the wage losses of displaced workers : the role of the reallocation of workers into firms and job titles

Raposo, Pedro; Portugal, Pedro; Carneiro, Anabela - 2015

Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...

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Real wages and the business cycle : accounting for worker and firm heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages of newly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just …

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Zooming the ins and outs of the U.S. unemployment with a wavelet lens

Portugal, Pedro; Rua, António - 2018

To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction …. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …

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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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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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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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Catastrophic job destruction

Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2013

the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic decline of total employment and increase of the unemployment rate. We also …

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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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