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Comparing the employment-output elasticities of expatriates and nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Behar, Alberto - 2015
We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …
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Will the AI revolution cause a great divergence?
Alonso, Cristian; Berg, Andrew; Kothari, Siddharth; … - 2020
This paper considers the implications for developing countries of a new wave of technological change that substitutes pervasively for labor. It makes simple and plausible assumptions: the AI revolution can be modeled as an increase in productivity of a distinct type of capital that substitutes...
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Financial crises, investment slumps, and slow recoveries
Cerra, Valerie; Hakamada, Mai; Lama C., Ruy - 2021
One of the most puzzling facts in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is that output across advanced and emerging economies recovered at a much slower rate than anticipated by most forecasting agencies. This paper delves into the mechanics behind the observed slow recovery and the...
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It's Not What You Make, it's How You Use it : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the it Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2002
This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...
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Sizing up the effects of technological decoupling
Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Eugster, Johannes; Mano, Rui; Muir, Dirk - 2021
This paper proposes channels through which technological decoupling can affect global growth, and embeds these different layers in a global dynamic macroeconomic model. Multiple scenarios are considered that differ along two dimensions: (i) the coalition of countries (hubs) that initiate the...
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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment
Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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Trade, jobs, and inequality
Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021
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 … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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Macroeconomic impacts of gender inequality and informality in India
Khera, Purva - 2016
participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job …
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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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Immigration and employment : substitute versus complementary labor in selected African countries
Viseth, Arina - 2020
in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of …
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