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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show the following: 1) Trade … openness unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. 2) The … even when informality is repressed. 4) Repressing informality increases productivity but at the expense of employment and …

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Employer market power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2024

Adam Smith alleged that employers often secretly combine to reduce labor earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: illegal no-poaching agreements through which information-technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly...

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Trade reform and regional dynamics: Evidence from 25 years of Brazilian matched employer-employee data

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - 2015

We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...

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The job search intensity supply curve: How labor market conditions affect job search effort

Schwartz, Jeremy - 2014

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can...

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Isolated States of America: The impact of state borders on mobility and regional labor market adjustments

Wilson, Riley - 2021

I document a new empirical pattern of internal mobility in the United States. Namely, county-tocounty migration and commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant county...

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Economic shocks and crime: Evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2017

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in...

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Maximum Score Estimates of the Determinants of Residential Mobility: Implications for the Value of Residential Attachment and Neighborhood Amenities

Bartik, Timothy J.; Butler, J.S.; Liu, Jin Tan - 1990

This paper examines the determinants of the decision of low-income renters to move out of their current dwelling. Maximum score estimation is shown t be superior to ordinary discrete choice estimation techniques (probit, logit) for this problem, ad for similar discrete choices that require...

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The Displacement Effect of Reemployment Bonus Programs

Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 1990

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Dislocated Worker Human Capital Depreciation and Recovery

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Willke, Richard J. - 1990

Previous studies have estimated the "human capital depreciation" of women re-entering the work force after voluntary, lengthy interruptions. Those studies have found reduced real wages and furthermore the decrease is positively related to the length of the interruption. Upon re-entry, however,...

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An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Adequacy

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 1990

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is expensive, yields small samples, and presumes that the analyst knows which categories of expenditure are necessary. This paper uses an existing large data set, and an agnostic approach....

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