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We develop a frictional labor market model with multiple regions and heterogeneous firms to study how frictions impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that...
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This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high levels of informality, weak enforcement of UI claims, and job search frictions. We assess the impact of UI on workers' welfare in the presence of moral hazard and liquidity...
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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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that an increase in globalization in the sense of lower transaction costs has no effect on equilibrium workers' rights, but … effect of globalization on labor rights is ambiguous. Empirically, we find little evidence that globalization drives …
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companies to disentangle the role of technological change, market power, and globalization in driving a fall in the labor share … measured using four firm and twenty firm concentration ratios and globalization is measured as export shares in total revenues … smaller. Finally, the evidence on globalization is mixed: trade shares are at times negatively associated with the labor share …
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We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
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We investigate the role of trade imbalances for the distributional consequences of globalization. We do so through the … that modelling trade imbalances can lead to stark differences between short- and long-run consequences of globalization …
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We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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