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factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …
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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 provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives … employment. These average effects mask considerable heterogeneity across groups: while younger natives experience larger wage … effects, employment responses are particularly pronounced for older natives. This pattern is inconsistent with standard models …
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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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workforce. This paper provides a descriptive overview of union membership growth and economy-wide employment shares in the U … and the role of public sector unions. -- union membership ; public sector unions ; public sector pay ; employment …
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collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related … between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining agreement or firm-level contract and employment growth of about one … percentage point per annum. However, the correlation between employment growth and collective bargaining is not robust to the use …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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Using the Mexican Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) covering 1984-2000 we analyze wages and employment in … Mexico after trade liberalization and domestic reforms. We find that wage inequality and returns to post-secondary schooling …
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