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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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.S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all …This paper assesses the responsiveness of wages and labor force movements to employment shocks across British and U … force to employment shocks is much greater in the United States compared to Europe. The strong labor force response in the …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage …-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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UK economy to the postaccession surge in immigration. Simulations show that immigration is likely to have positive …
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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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The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification approach using Worldscope data from 31 countries...
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We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and hospitals, and water and sanitation. Using rich firm-level panel data from 41 countries over 19 years, we estimate that USD 1 million of public spending in infrastructure...
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We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well …
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