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The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
Elsby, Michael W. - 2007
One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment inflows as acyclical. This trend stems in large part from an influential paper by Shimer on "Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment," i.e., the extent to which increased...
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462981
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Inequality Change in China and (Hukou) Labour Mobility Restrictions
Whalley, John - 2004
We analyze the Hukou system of permanent registration in China which many believe has supported growing relative … regions and cities. Our aim is to inject economic modelling into the debate on sources of inequality in China which thus far … geographical divides in China is supported solely by quantity based migration restrictions (urban -- rural areas, rich -- poor …
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2013
In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459436
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in … particular the Limarí Valley); (3) China (in particular, the North); (4) South Africa; and (5) the western United States. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462452
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The Impact of Employer-Provided Health Insurance on Dynamic Employment Transitions
Gilleskie, Donna B. - 1999
We estimate the impact of employer-provided health insurance (EPHI) on the job mobility of males over time using a dynamic empirical model that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity. Previous studies of job-lock reach different conclusions about possible distortions in labor mobility stemming...
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Productivity Growth and Workers' Job Transitions : Evidence from Censal Microdata
Albagli, Elias; Canales, Mario; Syverson, Chad; Tapia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A large body of work has highlighted the importance of employment reallocation as a driver of aggregate productivity growth, but there is little direct evidence on the extent and nature of this process at the worker-firm level. We use an administrative matched employer-employee census for Chile...
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The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market
Gregory, Victoria; Menzio, Guido; Wiczer, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Based on patterns of employment transitions, we identify three different types of workers in the US labor market: α's β's and γ's. Workers of type α make up over half of all workers, are most likely to remain on the same job for more than 2 years and, when they become unemployed, typically...
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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Spatial differences in labor market performance are large and highly persistent. Using data from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job finding, and job filling within each country. This robust...
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Obedience in the Labor Market and Social Mobility : A Socio-Economic Approach
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of what types of values, especially in regards to obedience vs. independence, families impart to their children and how these values interact with social mobility. In the model, obedience is a useful characteristic for employers, especially when wages are low,...
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