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. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …
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. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1ư and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …
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and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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the differential effects across impacted areas. We employ the synthetic control method at the county level on a storm-by-storm … basis to analyze both the across- and within-storm dispersion of the labor market effects of hurricanes. We use storm data … from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Events database, which covers Atlantic Basin storms from …
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We develop a model of a small region with durable housing, endogenous home maintenance, and disaster expectations, in which hurricane strike damage is a function of maintenance decisions. The model implies that declining areas (relative to growing areas) have a less well-maintained housing...
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variation in regional unemployment and in the development of employment is puzzling. Our explanation of this regional variation … leads to an expansion of employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if … series data on output, prices, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office and the …
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Labor does not move only between firms and occupations; labor moves also between geographic areas. The territorial dimension of labor markets, however, has been rather loosely conceptualized, suggesting a unity absent in practice, probably because spatial theories have been developed, to a great...
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This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. The main methodological novelty consists of a new measure of green employment based on the task content of … occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals that: 1. the share of green employment is between 2 and 3 percent, with a strongly pro …
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