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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US

Winters, John V. - 2012

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and...

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Multiple job holding, local labor markets, and the business cycle

Hirsch, Barry T.; Husain, Muhammad M.; Winters, John V. - 2016

job holding and local unemployment rates using a large Current Population Survey data set of workers in urban labor … markets during 1998-2013. High unemployment labor markets have moderately lower rates of multiple job holding. Yet no … relationship between multiple job holding and unemployment is found within markets over time, with near zero estimates being …

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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022

We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...

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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022

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It's a woman's world? : occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Stepanyan, Gayane - 2020

We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do so by examining which task groups and...

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

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It's a woman's world? : occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Stepanyan, Gayane - 2020

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Labour market participation and atypical employment over the life cycle : a cohort analysis for Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel; Tamm, Marcus - 2018

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into...

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