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Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U ….S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure …
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When job search takes place across labour markets, the standard flow approach to labour market analysis fails to uncover the effectiveness at which workers are matched to available jobs. A spatially augmented matching function is backed by a spatial search model with endogenous search intensity....
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's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms … local demand shocks in other counties linked through firms' internal networks. These results are not driven by direct demand …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
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structural characteristics of regions into account and investigate differences in labor demand responsiveness and their potential … findings point to substantially distinct labor demand responses to changes in output and wages among European countries and … labor markets ; labor demand ; institutions ; Europe ; error correction model …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
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has a limited reaction to labour demand shocks, consistent with the high rigidity of nominal wages and pro …-cyclical variations in rents, which absorb the gains (losses) from higher (lower) employment rates; c) labour demand shocks are fairly …
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than to local demand factors However, the impact of determinants is not homogenous across poviats Where unemployment is low …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320896
This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation period is 2005–2010, when broadband was...
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