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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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Norway has a well-functioning labour market with high employment and a compressed wage distribution, contributing to low inequality. Norway nevertheless faces challenges from a trend decline in employment rates among the young and prime-age men. Furthermore, immigrants and people with...
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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring … from immigration and offshoring on a firmer empirical foundation; and second, to explore changes in the European social … increased global competition from emerging market economies. Both immigration and offshoring confront European policy makers …
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immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring … from immigration and offshoring on a firmer empirical foundation; and second, to explore changes in the European social … increased global competition from emerging market economies. Both immigration and offshoring confront European policy makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761663
This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall … of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …
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Using data from the Current Population Survey from 1980 through 2010 we examine what drives variation andcyclicality in the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series for median weekly earnings growth into the part...
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To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
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