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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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The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These...
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common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a …
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find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …
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find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …
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We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo … time rise sharply after displacement and gradually decline in subsequent years. The recovery is due to employer changes … rather than migration, and a larger increase in commuting would mitigate the wage loss due to job displacement. To …
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We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo … time rise sharply after displacement and gradually decline in subsequent years. The recovery is due to employer changes … rather than migration, and a larger increase in commuting would mitigate the wage loss due to job displacement. To …
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The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative … main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19 major forced displacement crises that occurred between 1922 and …
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