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This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …
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This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504376
Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and across space, we find that photovoltaic installations...
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This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth … variation in local broadband availability. The results suggest that broadband expansion had a positive effect on employment … broadband in the production process that leads to complementary hiring, respectively a slowdown of employment growth, in the …
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This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1ư and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …
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This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing … associated with cross-country regressions. This test is based on the hypothesis that employment protection regulations are more … are intrinsically more volatile. The paper also finds that employment and value added decline in the most affected sectors …
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The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …
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really is the case. This paper investigates whether employment growth in 'green' establishments with 'green' products and … analyzed. We use linked employment and regional data for Germany. The descriptive results show that the environmental sector is … characterized by disproportionately high employment growth. The application of both a generalized linear mixed model and an …
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We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six …
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