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immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … regions with high trade exposure was only three-fifths that in regions with low exposure. Immigration thus appears more likely …
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Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
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Because minorities typically fare poorly on standardized tests, job testing is thought to pose an equity-efficiency trade-off: testing improves selection but reduces minority hiring. We evaluate this trade-off using data from a national retail firm whose 1,363 stores switched from informal to...
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