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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … wages, investment, and firm profitability. Country characteristics, such as educational attainment, can also improve …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …
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I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment rates, I only use the within-state variation in...
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Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock in terms of job loss rates. The differential impacts were …
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. We find that young and less educated workers have always been affected more in recessions, while women and Hispanics were …
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