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Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Shimer, Robert - 2010

welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …

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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Chatterji, Pinka - 2010

behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …

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The Firm's Role in Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2019

We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...

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Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio : A Review of the Evidence

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population aging has had a large effect on the overall employment...

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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kroft, Kory - 2015

Income Tax (NIT) at the bottom of the income distribution, in the presence of unemployment and wage responses to taxation … that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market … unemployment and wage responses are not taken into account …

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David L. - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring...

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Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath : U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Farber, Henry S. - 2015

The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which, by some measures, it has not completely recovered. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2014 to investigate the incidence and consequences of job...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....

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