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Globalization, government popularity, and the great skill divide and the great skill divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej; Treisman, Daniel - 2020

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...

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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

Are the labor market changes from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces...

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Aggregate shocks or aggregate information? : Costly information and business cycle comovement

Veldkamp, Laura (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

When similar patterns of expansion and contraction are observed across sectors, we call this a business cycle. Yet explaining the similarity and synchronization of these cycles across industries remains a puzzle. Whereas output growth across industries is highly correlated, identifiable shocks,...

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

opposite effect on manufacturing employment, suggesting that local officials' efforts to attract shopping centers and large … stores crowd out manufacturing. -- fiscal zoning ; sales taxes ; retail employment ; manufacturing employment …

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Explaining the unexplained : residual wage inequality, manufacturing decline, and low-skilled immigration

Gould, Eric D. - 2015

This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and … shows that a shrinking manufacturing sector increases inequality. In addition, an influx of low-skilled immigrants increases … inequality, but this effect is concentrated in areas with a steeper manufacturing decline. Similar results are found for two …

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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks

Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015

This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...

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Non-standard employment across occupations in Germany : the role of replaceability and labour market flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...

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Industry-wide work rules and productivity : evidence from Argentine union contract data

Lamarche, Carlos - 2013

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...

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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …

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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war

Utar, Hâle - 2022

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...

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