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This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … non-negligible employment effects (except for teenagers during 1993-98). The evidence regarding decreasing minimum wages …
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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The 'new electronics technology' in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried...
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In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80% - the highest on record, and considerably … certain policies and compositional changes on the employment rate. We also investigate how job 'quality' - in both financial … and non-financial terms - has changed. We find that almost all demographic groups and regions saw a rise in employment …
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model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
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