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We examined the impact of the depreciation of the Australian dollar (AU$) during 2013-2015 on the expenditure of households with foreign-born members (HFBMs) in Australia. Employing the difference-in-differences method and 2013-2015 Nielson Homescan Panel Survey data, we found that HFBMs spent...
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Recent economic literature has advanced the notion that cognitive biases and behavioural barriers may be important influencers of uptake decisions in respect of public programs that are designed to help disadvantaged people. This paper provides the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of...
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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jobs that offered higher wages than those without AI capital. Furthermore, it was found that large firms exhibited a …
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back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for low-skilled workers. Since … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation-induced reshoring is associated with an increasing … wages and employment for high-skilled labor but not for low-skilled labor and that tariffs increase the degree of reshoring. …
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