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Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital statistics records from a large developing country,...
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Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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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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