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immigration has a negative effect on the earnings and employment of native workers, and positive effects on their firm, industry …Empirical estimates of the effect of immigration on native workers that rely on spatial comparisons have generally … by spreading it over a larger area. In contrast, studies that rely on variation in immigration across industries …
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Do job characteristics modulate the relationship between import competition and the wages of workers who perform those … using O*NET data. The linked employer-employee data allow us to model the effect of low-wage import competition on the wages … and highly complex jobs, increased import competition is associated with higher wages. Finally, workers in occupations …
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relationship between productivity and immigration spawned urban diversity. Existing empirical work has uncovered a robust positive … and nontrivial spillovers for U.S. workers. This social return represents a distinct channel through which immigration …
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Do the job-to-job moves of workers contribute to the cyclicality of employment growth at different types of firms? In … reallocation to higher wage firms falling to zero. We also find that differential responses of net hires from non-employment play … an important role in the patterns of the cyclicality of employment dynamics across firms classified by size and wage. For …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of mergers and acquisitions (Mamp;As)on wages and employment and … 1977-87 or 1982-92. We find that (1) Mamp;As are positively associated with wages in the meat packing and prepared meat … products industries over 1977-87, but not over 1982-92; (2) changes in employment are positively related to Mamp;As in all …
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The U.S. workforce has had little change in real wages, income, or earnings since the year 2000. However, even when …
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We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy …
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consider the relationship between labor reallocation, employment, and earnings using a vector autoregression (VAR) framework …. We find that labor market churn Granger-causes higher employment and lower unemployment, while job destruction does the …
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We study the responsiveness of individuals' employment and earnings to the damages and disruption caused by Hurricanes … demand, especially in sectors related to rebuilding. Despite short-term earnings losses due to an increased rate of non-employment …
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