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Heterogeneous labour demand in the Colombian manufacturing sector

Álvarez, Luis-Esteban; Castellani, Francesca; Obando, … - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 1, pp. 1-19

Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey between 2000 and 2013, we investigate the heterogeneity in labour demand within the industrial sector based on the elasticities. We find that long-run own-price, output, and TFP elasticities vary across a variety of dimensions such as regions,...

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House prices and employment reallocation: international evidence

Bover, Olympia; Jimeno, Juan F. - Banco de España - 2007

change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand in the construction sector, featuring building constraints, which … display larger elasticities of labor demand in the construction sector with respect to house prices than countries that seem … the whole economy, the elasticity of labor demand with respect to house prices is broadly similar across countries. …

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Remote Work and City Structure

Monte, Ferdinando; Porcher, Charly; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

externality, but entails commuting costs. Switching between modes of labor delivery is costly, and workers face idiosyncratic …

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House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence

Jimeno, Juan F; Bover, Olympia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence

Bover, Olympia; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labour demand...

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Attitudes, Policies and Work

Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Seranelli, … - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2010

improvesupon existing studies of the role of "culture" for labor market outcomes by dealing explicitlywith the endogeneity of … attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistentnature of labor market outcomes. When we do all this we …

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth:The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption andRegulations Across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds importanteffects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paperfocuses on how the impact...

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Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel ofEstablishments: A Structural Approach

Ejarque, João Miguel; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Ourestablishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels arelargely constant throughout our sample...

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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendon, Sílvio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positiveassortative matching between firms...

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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption toLow-Skill Labor Markets

Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have beenincreasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such asfood preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of homeproduction activities. Meanwhile the wage...

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