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China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the … level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …
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U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …
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This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...
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We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We...
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replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing … industries remained unchanged. The reform increased sales, R&D investment, and employment for affected service firms, which is …
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We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares …
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as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the … shock, however, so the independent employment effect of the China shock is reduced by about 20-30%, with that remainder …The 'China shock' operated in part through the housing market, and that is an important reason why the China shock was …
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Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …
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This paper sets out the political economy behind Asian governments' participation in a revived Bretton Woods System. The overriding problem for these governments is to rapidly integrate a large pool of underemployed labor into the industrial sector. The principal constraints are inefficient...
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