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study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in … separately from the effects of political instability. The results suggest that low-skilled wages are adversely affected by an … increase in the supply of low- and high-skilled workers, while high- skilled wages are only weakly negatively related to an …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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In der öffentlichen Debatte werden vor dem Hintergrund von Studien zur Automatisierbarkeit von Berufen immer wieder Stimmen laut, dass Industrie 4.0 und Digitalisierung massive Jobverluste nach sich ziehen könnten. Der lange Weg von der Entwicklung neuer Technologien in die betriebliche Praxis...
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study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in … separately from the effects of political instability. The results suggest that low-skilled wages are adversely affected by an … increase in the supply of low- and high-skilled workers, while high-skilled wages are only weakly negatively related to an …
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of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
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New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...
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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600-311,000, and …
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