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Occupational Licensing and the Healthcare Labor Market
Dillender, Marcus; LoSasso, Anthony; Phelan, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the labor market impact of states easing occupational license requirements by expanding the scope of practice (SOP) for nurse practitioners (NPs), allowing them to practice without physician oversight. Using data on job postings, we find that employers increase their demand for NPs...
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Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021
Holzer, Harry J.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Strain, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The generosity of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits was expanded during the pandemic (FPUC), along with the groups of workers eligible for benefits (PUA). These two programs were set to expire in September 2021, but 18 states opted out of both in June 2021. Using Current Population Survey...
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New-Keynesian Trade : Understanding the Employment and Welfare Effects of Trade Shocks
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2020
There is a growing empirical consensus that trade shocks can have important effects on unemployment and nonemployment across local-labor markets within an economy. This paper introduces downward nominal wage rigidity to an otherwise standard quantitative trade model and shows how this framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482124
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Estimating the Employment Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Changes : Early Evidence, an Interpretative Framework, and a Pre-Commitment to Future Analysis
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2017
This paper presents early evidence on the employment effects of state minimum wage increases enacted between January 2013 and January 2015, and offers an interpretative framework to understand why it is of interest to study recent changes in isolation. Given the ongoing transitions of many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455597
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The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession : Evidence of Effects on the Employment and Income Trajectories of Low-Skilled Workers
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2014
We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data we analyze. First, we compare workers in states that were bound by recent increases in the federal minimum wage to workers in states that were not....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457942
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Local Deficits and Local Jobs : Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?
Carlino, Gerald - 2013
Using a sample of the 48 mainland U.S. states for the period 1973-2009, we study the ability of U.S. states to expand own state employment through the use of state deficit policies. The analysis allows for the facts that U.S. states are part of a wider monetary and economic union with free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459731
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362031
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …
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