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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization …

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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of different skill types or to capital. Factors of production have well …-defined comparative advantage across tasks, which governs the pattern of substitution between skill groups. Technological change can: (1 …

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The Rise of Healthcare Jobs

Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Mahoney, Neale; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Healthcare employment has grown more than twice as fast as the labor force since 1980, overtaking retail trade to become the largest industry by employment in 2009. We document key facts about the rise of healthcare jobs. Earnings for healthcare workers have risen nearly twice as fast as those...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium …

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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery

Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...

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When Protectionism Kills Talent

Canayaz, Mehmet I.; Erel, Isil; Gurun, Umit G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the repercussions of protectionist policies implemented in the United States since 2018 on the composition of workforce and career choices within the semiconductor industry. We find that the shift towards protectionism, aimed at reviving domestic manufacturing and employment,...

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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity

Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...

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Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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