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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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The China syndrome : local labor market effects of import competition in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410225
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Living wage laws : how much do (can) they matter?
Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and poverty rates of low-wage workers. I review the characteristics of these laws and where they have been implemented to date, and what economic theory tells us about their likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769765
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Minimum wages and teen employment : a spatial panel approach
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2011
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379505
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516946
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Minimum wage channels of adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T.; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Zelenska, Tetyana - 2011
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-level biweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measure the MW compliance cost for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521219
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families : what do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - 2012
We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683216
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Does federally-funded job training work? : nonexperimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...
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