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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers : evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021
, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … the foreign-born workforce since 1976. The raw correlations suggest that the immigrant supply shock did not change the … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on …
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Who bears the economic costs of environmental regulations?
Fullerton, Don; Muehlegger, Erich - 2017
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H. Gregg Lewis: perhaps the father of modern labor economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
them carefully. He also laid out the theory of the supply and demand for labor in careful detail that has underlain …
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Analysing the labour market : a tension gauge
Ruth, Floris van - 2012
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The wage-productivity gap revisited : is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that...
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The wage-productivity gap revisited : is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990440
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Labor shortages and wage growth
Frohm, Erik - 2020
This paper presents a novel measure of labor market conditions based on micro data from a large business survey in Sweden. The indicator, relative labor shortages (RLS), is the ratio of respondents' quantitative assessment of labor shortages and current employment. Contrary to other surveybased...
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Essays in macroeconomics : fiscal policy, hiring frictions, uncertainty, and risk sharing
Rogantini Picco, Anna - 2020
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Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks : evaluating the labor market effects of temporary aggregate demand shocks requires analyzing both employment and hours of work
Hart, Robert A. - 2023
The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great Recession in 2007-2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2022 have shown that consideration of both is important. Workers' desired rises in working hours in times of recession...
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