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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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. As former welfare recipients enter the labor market, they may exert downward pressure on wages or displace employment of … recipients in Michigan led to a 0.9 to 2.6 percentage point increase in employment among high school drop--outs and a 1.2 to 2 … benefits to people who fell through the cracks in federal anti--poverty programs. In all, about 82,000 able--bodied adults lost …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … associated positively with firm employment in advanced and emerging market economies, although the relationship is more uncertain … quantitatively small. Looking at the distributional impact, there is mixed evidence for a skill bias in wages related to increased …
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