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-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new … wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve - the empirical relationship between wage growth and …
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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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providing high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the …
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COVID-19 has exacerbated concerns about the rise of the robots and other automation technologies. This paper analyzes empirically the impact of past major pandemics on robot adoption and inequality. First, we find that pandemic events accelerate robot adoption, especially when the health impact...
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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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, although this effect has become weaker since 2008. But there isdownward pressure on wages for individuals with occupations that …
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We study how the distribution of earnings growth evolves over the business cycle in Italy. Wedistinguish between two sources of annual earnings growth: changes in employment time (number ofweeks of employment within a year) and changes in weekly earnings. Changes in employment timegenerate the...
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Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find...
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spending is crucial for its macroeconomic implications. Although reductions in public wages and government purchases of goods … reductions decrease private wages. Model counterfactuals show that sufficiently rigid nominal private wages can reverse the … response of private wages, as the rigidity dampens the labor reallocation effect from the public to private sector that exerts …
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Despite its low unemployment rate, the recent shift in the Japanese Beveridge curveindicates increased labor mismatch. This paper quantifies the age, employment-type (fullor part-time), and occupational mismatch in the Japanese labor market following Sahinand others (2013). Between April 2000...
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