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Shifting the Beveridge Curve : What Affects Labor Market Matching?
Bova, Elva - 2016
This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify shifts in the Beveridge curves for 12 OECD countries between 2000Q1 and 2013Q4 using three complementary methodologies and analyze the short-run determinants of these shifts by...
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Why U.S. Immigration Matters for the Global Advancement of Science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings … developing countries. Fourth, certain ‘push’ incentives that reduce immigration barriers—by addressing financing constraints for …
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Physical Capital Adjustment within Spain : Long-Run and Short-Run Analysis
Mauro, Paolo - 2021
This paper considers the adjustment of physical capital within a country in the long run and in the short run. It uses a unique data set on income, labor, human capital, and private and public physical capital in the Spanish regions over the past two decades. In the long run, the movement of...
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Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race
Spilimbergo, Antonio; Ubeda, Luis - 2021
Blacks in the United States have a lower geographic mobility rates than whites even though they have several characteristics that are usually associated with high rates of mobility: high unemployment, low rate of home ownership, low marriage rate and settlement in areas where unemployment is...
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Labor Market Adjustments to Shocks in Australia
Mohommad, Adil - 2017
Labor markets in Australia have adjusted smoothly to significant declines in commodity priceswith little increase in unemployment. This paper examines several aspects of the adjustment,focusing on (i) evidence of increased labor market frictions following the commodity pricedecline; (ii)...
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Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation : Evidence from China
Yang, Yang - 2019
This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset ofbilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, andfirm-level census. I first...
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Structural Transformation and the Agricultural Wage Gap
Alvarez, Jorge - 2018
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantlybelow those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrativepanel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors to decompose the driversof this gap. I find that most of the gap is...
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Immigration and Wage Dynamics in Germany
Klinger, Sabine - 2020
-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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Immigration and Employment : Substitute Versus Complementary Labor in Selected African Countries
viseth, Arina - 2021
This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa toexamine immigration's impact in … the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-SaharanAfrica. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and nativeworkers' skills. Immigration is found to …
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