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is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level … employment adjustment. Changes in market power, as captured by changes in the curvature of the revenue, function play a minimal …
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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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switching, (2) weeks spent unemployed as a share of weeks in the labor force, and (3) earnings. We precisely estimate small …
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reviving domestic manufacturing and employment, paradoxically resulted in a significant drop in hiring domestic talent. The …
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: import tariffs on foreign goods neither raised nor lowered US employment in newly-protected sectors; retaliatory tariffs had … clear negative employment impacts, primarily in agriculture; and these harms were only partly mitigated by compensatory US …
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This paper extends the literature on monopsony and labor market concentration by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration in the demand for skills on labor market outcomes. The prior literature has focused on industry and occupation concentration and likely...
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Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...
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EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and …Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment … non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups …
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A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
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. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …
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