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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 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. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …
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Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …
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whether increases in employment are associated with increased incidence of the flu. We use state-level data on the prevalence … percentage point increase in the employment rate increases the number of influenza related doctor visits by about 16 percent, and …
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This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …
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We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …
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