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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
Jaimovich, Nir - 2012
Job polarization refers to the shrinking share of employment in middle-skill, routine occupations experienced recently, over the last 35 years. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions, despite recoveries in aggregate output. We show how...
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Mismatch Unemployment
Sahin, Aysegul - 2012
unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …
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The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs : How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement
Coile, Courtney - 2010
labor markets. We find that workers age 62 to 69 are responsive to the unemployment rate and to long-run fluctuations in … the rising unemployment rate will be almost 50 percent larger than the decrease in retirement brought about by the stock …
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Comparative Advantage and Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2010
We model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative …
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The Micro and Macro of Disappearing Routine Jobs : A Flows Approach
Cortes, Guido Matias - 2014
unemployment to employment in routine occupations, (ii) that from labor force non-participation to routine employment, and (iii …
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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment Over the Life Cycle
Gervais, Martin - 2014
Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …
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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa...
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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality : an Alternative Theory and Some Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - 2021
unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …
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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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