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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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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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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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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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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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We examine firm responses to location-based hiring subsidies. We leverage institutional features of the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC), a large-scale business incentive program that incorporates best practices from prior job creation policies. The CCTC award selection procedure combines...
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Survey job tenure supplements. In contrast to the distribution of wages, which clearly changed in the 1980s, we find that job …
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We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We … find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of … local job density defined for Hispanic poor English speakers or immigrants are more important, and that the density of jobs …
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The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...
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