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import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …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 …
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expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …
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This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages …
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as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth …
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Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip … credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits - or minimum wages for restaurant workers - to … minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without earnings effects on those who …
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The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. What is … economists even summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from "it is now well …-established that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment," to "the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there …
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find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not …
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industry. We find that CCTC awards increase employment among workers residing in both high income and low income communities …
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tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be … estimated by regressing the change in employment and wages on the exposure to robots in each local labor market--defined from … this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones. We …
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A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states …. They argue that using "local controls" establishes that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment of less … analyses and conclusions, and argue that the best evidence still points to job loss from minimum wages for very low …
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