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During the last three decades, jobs in the middle of the skill distribution disappeared, and employment expanded for … rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …
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employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are … responsible for the negative response of employment. …
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response of employment to a technology shock. We find that labor market frictions account for the fall in labor inputs. …
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losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however …
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Using data on border enforcement and macroeconomic indicators from the United States and Mexico, we estimate a two-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and documents the insurance role of remittances in...
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity …
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I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...
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This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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