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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the … establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the … entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at rapidly-adjusting establishments. We find that the patterns of …
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impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …
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restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999 2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …
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data is useful for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived … for many firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours …, employment, the share of females in employment and firm expectations of survival). A limitation of such analysis with any …
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This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. Our analysis shows that the number of job postings declined by a third and remained low even when implemented restrictions were...
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wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
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differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …
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