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negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism … indirectly exposed industries - can explain their disparate employment effects outside manufacturing and, in turn, the …
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reduction in manufacturing employment. Next, we present our main results, and show that, on average, robots caused a sizable … anything, favored employment growth outside of manufacturing. We provide suggestive evidence that these propagation patterns …
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during … part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions … between full-time and part-time employment. Those transitions occur overwhelmingly at the same employer, entail sizable …
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The United States stands out among advanced economies with marked declines in labor force participation. National averages furthermore conceal considerable within-country heterogeneity. This paper explores regional differences to shed light on drivers of participation rates at the state and...
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employment primarily along a lowskill (or low 'match-quality') dimension. In such a case, job creation would serve to lower …
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income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …
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participation among MNCs is associated with the offshoring of U.S. employment and other domestic investment activities. We find that …
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