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Current legislative proposals consider amendments to child labor laws for U.S. agriculture. Similar amendments, however, have been unsuccessful recently. Using the National Agricultural Workers Survey, we show that child labor is still substantial in the modern U.S. despite some decreases over...
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employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence … on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …
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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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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … in US high-tech manufacturing sector. The Canadian high-sector is smaller than its US counterpart and experienced much …
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administrative immigration data from 2005 to 2019, we uncover evidence that the E-Verify, an employment verification mandate …, we find that the E-Verify policy restricts the employment of undocumented farmworkers. Our results indicate that domestic …
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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …
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