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External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility

Cappelli, Peter; Neumark, David - 2021

with reduced voluntary and involuntary turnover in manufacturing. But in the rest of the economy and indeed overall, they … related to involuntary turnover even in manufacturing. The evidence therefore suggests that on net employers seeking … manufacturing is there some evidence of substitutability between internal job flexibility and external job churning …

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Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?

Neumark, David; Cappelli, Peter - 2021

Interest in the potential effects of different systems for organizing work and managing employees on the performance of organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern about the sources of competitiveness in...

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Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes : Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria - 2011

rates increase. We also find that manufacturing employment is significantly lowered in these jurisdictions. These results … centers and that their efforts crowd out manufacturing. A rise of one percentage point in a county-level local sales tax rate … is predicted to result in 258 additional retail jobs and the loss of 838 manufacturing jobs …

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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

Neumark, David - 2011

The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...

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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...

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U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock

Asquith, Brian - 2017

the industry and commuting-zone levels, and then estimates the impact of the `China shock' on each job-flow type. The …

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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

, and would have fallen by more had the services industry - a heavily female industry in which sex segregation is relatively …

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More on Recent Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the United States

Neumark, David - 2014

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (2010) and Allegretto et al. (2011) argue that past U.S. research is flawed because it...

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Job Stability in the United States

Diebold, Francis X.; Neumark, David; Polsky, Daniel - 2021

Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor...

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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2021

We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer-employee data set that we have created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language%u2013as skilled workers may be more complementary with other skilled workers than with unskilled...

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