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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000. I document that, conditional on detailed job characteristics, blacks are less likely than whites to work in suburban establishments, and this spatial segregation is stable...
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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age
Farber, Henry S. - 2018
We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting callbacks to job applications. We focus on how the effect of career history varies by age, partly in an attempt to reconcile disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot...
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2012
intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion
Freeman, Richard B. - 1999
The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...
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The Importance of Local Fiscal Conditions in Analyzing Local Labor Markets
Gyourko, Joseph - 1986
A new test of the compensating wage differential model is proposed. The logic behind Roback's model showing how differences in nonproduced amenities may be reflected in intercity wage differentials is extended to the case of differences in local fiscal conditions, represented by tax rates and...
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The Wage-Productivity Hypothesis : Its Economic Consequences and Policy Implications
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1986
This paper explores the implications for less developed countries the hypothesis that workers' productivity depends on the wages they receive. In particular, we show that this hypothesis may explain the high urban wages and unemployment found in many such countries. The market equilibrium is...
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Work of the Past, Work of the Future
Autor, David - 2019
Labor markets in U.S. cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled work than decades earlier. This deskilling reflects the joint effects of automation and international trade, which...
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Matching in Cities
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2018
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China
Whalley, John - 2010
We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...
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