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Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and … individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the … general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in …
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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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This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national laws and decrees on the strictness and the duration of...
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evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …
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find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …
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evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological …
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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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countries is explained by the sectoral/occupational employment structure of the economies. …
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Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … lower wage inequality. This result is more or less undisputed in the literature. The union effect on employment is …
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