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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment
Utar, Hâle - 2016
I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410225
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412742
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Mandatory advance notice of layoff : evidence and efficiency considerations
Cederlöf, Jonas; Fredriksson, Peter; Nekoei, Arash; … - 2021
employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but … leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …
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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic
Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015
disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and … and reducing obstacles for job creation in the central and eastern regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399343
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Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Human Capital
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies a model of human capital accumulation with real wage rigidity. It is shown that the arbitrage condition between hiring a skilled versus an unskilled worker may be stated as a positive relationship between their relative unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is...
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Unemployment and subsequent earnings for Swedish college graduates : a study of scarring effects
Gartell, Marie - 2009
Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for the inclusion of a rich set of observable control...
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
productivity, job creation, and well-being. …
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The costs of job loss and task usage
Kauhanen, Antti; Riukula, Krista - 2019
This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs … individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that the heterogeneity in the cost of job loss is linked to task usage … routine jobs face larger wage losses. Instead, the distance in task usage between the origin job and other jobs does not …
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Adapting to the changing labour market in New Zealand
Carey, David - 2017
Technological change is increasing the productivity of highly skilled workers but creating more challenging labour-market conditions for their low-skilled counterparts. These pressures are likely to grow, especially in light of progress being made in Artificial Intelligence. The NZ labour force...
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