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Immigration and the U.S. labor market : a look ahead
Holzer, Harry J. - 2020
participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat …
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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial...
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Migration and the wage curve : a structural approach to measure the wage and employment effects of migration
Brücker, Herbert (contributor); Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2008
through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684465
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Job vacancies, the Beveridge Curve, and supply shocks : the frequency and content of help-wanted ads in pre- and post-Mariel Miami
Anastasopoulos, Jason; Borjas, George J.; Cook, Gavin G.; … - 2019
-wanted ads published in local newspapers in 51 metropolitan areas. We use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration … recovery afterwards. The Miami evidence is consistent with the observed relation between immigration and the HWI across all … metropolitan areas in the 1970- 2000 period: these spatial correlations suggest that more immigration reduces the number of job …
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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …
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Flexible work arrangements in low wage jobs: evidence from job vacancy data
Adams, Abi; Balgova, Maria; Qian, Matthias - 2020
In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...
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