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filled jobs. Under counterfactual policies that resemble traditional employment regulation, buyers post fewer online jobs and … results suggest that neither online or offline knowledge workers will benefit from applying traditional employment regulation …
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Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year 2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections are consistent with the U S Census Bureau’s and...
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In this paper we ask how the diffusion of oral contraception to young unmarried women affected the number and maternal characteristics of children born to these women. Using census data, we find that early pill access led to an increase in the share of children whose mothers were married,...
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U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …
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This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
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below-average wages. According to simulation results, taxes lower long-run employment levels in high-wage areas by 17 … $40 billion in 2008. Employment is shifted from North to South and from urban to rural areas. Tax deductions index taxes …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
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the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main …
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Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in temporary help services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy, there is little evidence on whether that is driven by the sector per se or by the workers'...
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We study a two-country two-sector model of international trade in which one sector produces homogeneous products while the other produces differentiated products. The differentiated-product industry has firm heterogeneity, monopolistic competition, search and matching in its labor market, and...
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