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Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for … protection laws. In contrast to the findings for employment, we find little evidence for a relationship between wages and … software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we …
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-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 impact of 1-1.5 jobs/MW in the 15 months preceding the commissioning of a … solar park, when the park is under construction, but no impacts thereafter. For wind, we find no employment impacts during …
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, those who earn less, and in occupations and industries that require many face-to-face encounters. People who intend to …
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This study transforms the October Inquiry' Survey of wages conducted by the International Labour Organization into a … consistent data file on pay in 161 occupations in over 150 countries from 1983 to 1998 to examine the pattern of pay across … occupations and countries. The new file tells us that: 1. Skill differentials vary inversely with gross domestic product per …
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to non-uniform labor demand shocks. When workers have different skills, movements in aggregate wages partly reflect a … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless …This paper studies aggregate labor market dynamics when workers have heterogeneous skills for tasks which are subject …
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skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …
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-level job task information that allows us to compare the skills acquired in the years just after graduation to the tasks … required in later employment. Our findings reveal a postdoc salary penalty when task mismatch is high, which is frequent, and a … salary premium when skills align with tasks. Differences in accumulated task-specific human capital explain the between …
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job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … fixed level of training. Thus, Lee bounds set identifies a policy-relevant estimand only when firms pay homogeneous wages … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …
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