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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio Pietro - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
Baker, Laurence C. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility
Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2011
Some commentators have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job opportunities. I show that, in the available data, negative equity does not make homeowners less...
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Carrots and Sticks : Pay, Supervision and Turnover
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010
Large and persistent differences across industries in wages paid for given occupations have commonly been observed. Recently, the efficiency wage model (EWM) has been advanced as an explanation for these wage differentials. The shirking version of the EWM assumes a trade-off between...
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Externalities from Labor Mobility
Ball, Laurence - 2010
This paper assumes that workers can move from a market with high unemployment to one with low unemployment at a cost. In principle. equilibrium mobility can be greater or less than the social optimum. For most plausible parameter values. however. mobility is too low. Intuitively. mobility has a...
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, Kerem - 2010
integration with global product markets has increased both average income and job turnover in Colombia. In contrast, the …
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A. - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative-advantage sectors absorb trade-displaced labor. On the contrary, exporters separate from significantly more and hire...
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Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time
Davis, Steven J. - 2011
Many theoretical models of labor market search imply a tight link between worker flows (hires and separations) and job gains and losses at the employer level. Partly motivated by these theories, we exploit establishment-level data from U.S. sources to study the relationship between worker flows...
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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility
Krishna, Pravin - 2011
In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform. With an aggregate (firm-level) analysis of this question, we find that a decline in trade protection is associated with an increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to...
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