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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …
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local labor markets over time, we establish a new fact. Even though both shocks drastically reduced employment in the … manufacturing sector, only robots led to a sizable decline in population size. We provide evidence that negative employment …
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reviving domestic manufacturing and employment, paradoxically resulted in a significant drop in hiring domestic talent. The …
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We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by temporary layoffs and later recalls. Taking these into account, we show that … labor market had largely recovered and was characterized by extremely tight markets and a slightly depressed employment … predictions that COVID would dramatically and permanently change the way we live and work. We do see that employment has …
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Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment … EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and … non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups …
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We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …
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We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in which workers can decide to work in the central business district (CBD) or partly at home. Working in the CBD allows them to interact with other commuters,...
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