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Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity

Kleiner, Morris M. - 2020

We show that occupational licensing has significant negative effects on labor market fluidity defined as cross-occupation mobility. Using a balanced panel of workers constructed from the CPS and SIPP data, we analyze the link between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes. We find that...

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The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums

Baicker, Katherine - 2005

increase in the generosity of coverage. The effect of this increase in costs on wages and employment will depend on workers … lower wages. Measuring these effects is difficult, however, without a source of exogenous variation in the cost of benefits … effect of rising health insurance premiums on wages, employment, and health insurance coverage. We estimate that a 10 percent …

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …

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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2015

inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...

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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants' employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Employment and Earnings of Youth

Meyer, Robert H. - 1982

The employment and earnings effects of the minimum wage are estimated by parameterizing an hypothesized relationship between underlying market employment and wage relationships versus observed wage and employment distributions in the presence of a legislated minimum. If there had been no minimum...

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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022

We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...

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The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws : A Provisional Review

Adams, Scott - 2004

goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common …

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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

is that the U.S. labor market has flexible wages and employment practices, whereas European labor markets are rigid. The …

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