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flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; and (2) flood events reduce … output in the short run while their impact on firm entry and employment is limited. Motivated by these findings, we construct … a spatial equilibrium model to characterize how flood risk shapes firms' location choices and workers' employment, which …
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, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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entrepreneurs in new firm creation. Using city-industry variation over four decades, we estimate the employment - wage elasticity to … reflects the congestion externalities predicted by the search literature. Also, holding wages constant, an increase in the … local population is associated with a proportional increase in employment. These results provide indirect information about …
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-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages … (employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …
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differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …
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We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We … attainment. Moreover, we find significant and positive impacts of the program on the likelihood and quality of employment …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …
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academic and policy analysis are unknown. This paper measures the effect of negative credit information on the employment and … credit is only one-fourth as large. Negative credit information also causes an increase in self-employment and a decrease in …
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …
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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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