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Economic Shocks and Crime : Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017
This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …
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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks
Giroud, Xavier - 2016
Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456282
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015
methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization and find statistically significant but modest effects of liberalization …
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461286
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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization
Hanson, Gordon H. - 1994
In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474215
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Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets
Goldberg, Linda - 1999
We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment implications in these local labor markets. The importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471823
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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence
Adão, Rodrigo - 2019
flexible structure of spatial linkages, we characterize the model-consistent shock exposure of a local market as the exogenous … directly to the market's own shock exposure, and indirectly to other markets shocks exposures. We show how spatial linkages … control the size and the heterogeneity of these indirect effects. We then develop a new estimation methodology - the Model …
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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy : A Local Labor Market Approach
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2019
of a stock market wealth shock when monetary policy is passive. A 20% increase in stock valuations, unless countered by … shock …
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Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks : Evidence from the Fracking Revolution
Feyrer, James - 2015
. This technological shift interacts with local geology to create an exogenous shock to county income and employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457045
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Locate Your Nearest Exit : Mass Layoffs and Local Labor Market Response
Foote, Andrew - 2015
Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor force. This study examines the relationship between mass layoffs and the long-run size of the local labor force. It considers four main channels through which the local labor force...
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