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factors, education policies, and school environments …
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We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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find), so does growth. Consistent with US data over the past 30 years, firm entry, incumbents' employment response to …
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find), so does growth. Consistent with US data over the past 30 years, firm entry, incumbents’ employment response to …
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pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment … find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for … Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment …
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We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by temporary layoffs and later recalls. Taking these into account, we show that … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment … predictions that COVID would dramatically and permanently change the way we live and work. We do see that employment has …
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individuals who were platform workers in 2019 not reporting any self-employment income in 2020-2021. At the same time, other …
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Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records …-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers do not explain the rise in self-employment reported to the IRS; rather, that … propensity to self-report self-employment--only a small minority of which leads to bunching at kink-points. Consistent with pure …
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reallocation of different workers across tasks and into employment. This ensures that there nearly always exists some combination … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless … show that a frictionless model with realistic heterogeneity can replicate the mean wage increase and employment collapse of …
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