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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity

Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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Do Firms Mitigate Climate Impact on Employment? Evidence from US Heat Shocks

Acharya, Viral V.; Bhardwaj, Abhishek; Tomunen, Tuomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do firms mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on employment? Using establishment-level data, we show that firms operating in multiple counties in the United States respond to heat shocks by reducing employment in the affected locations and increasing it in unaffected locations, whereas...

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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

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Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics

Gertler, Mark; Huckfeldt, Christopher K.; Trigari, Antonella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the … due to "loss-of-recall", whereby workers in temporary-layoff unemployment lose their job permanently and do so at higher … both temporary-layoff and jobless unemployment. The model captures well pre-pandemic unemployment dynamics and shows how …

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis

Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...

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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...

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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers

Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...

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