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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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employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …
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employment is the margin through which native workers on indefinite-term contracts is affected. …
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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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We examine the determinants of migrants' choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest … factors affecting the choice of destination and employment are the sending area, age, and sex of migrants, while the …
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