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This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …
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employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …’ state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …
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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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skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from … 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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likely to have a positive impact on employment and wages in countries with flexible labor markets and vice versa. Moreover …, more regulated labor markets tend to have higher wages at the expense of sector wide employment. Our main findings show … that labor market rigidity reduces the positive impact of trade reform on employment. While this result is stronger for …
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Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
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welfare, and wage reduction. I find that individuals increase their visits to the doctor by 14 per cent and are 18.4 to 20 …
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, though differently. The effect on male fertility is negative, with shortened employment duration. Conversely, the effect on …
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employeremployee data of Portugal covering the 1991-2008 period, indicate that workers' earnings and employment are significantly …
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outside the production process as a financial capital or credit as per the classical Ricardian wage fund framework. Stock of … credit or financial capital as past savings, finances employment and machines or capital goods used in the process of …
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