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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …

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Economic and employment growth in Germany : the sectoral elements of Verdoorn's Law with regional data

Oelgemöller, Jens - 2013

A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true at the sectoral level. For this reason, the German labor...

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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment

Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021

Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...

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Do Localised Lockdowns Cause Labour Market Externalities?

Guaitoli, Gabriele; Tochev, Todor - 2021

The business restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the labour market. However, quantifying their costs is not trivial as local policies affect neighbouring areas through spillovers. Exploiting the U.S. local variation in restrictions and commuting, we estimate the...

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The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland

Albinowski, Maciej - 2020

Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland...

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The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland

Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020

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European structural funds during the crisis : evidence from Southern Italy

Ciani, Emanuele; De Blasio, Guido - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-31

We investigate the effectiveness of European Structural Funds on employment, population and house prices in 325 Local Labor Markets (LLM) located in Southern Italy. We exploit the variability in disbursements between 2007 and 2013 and estimate the impact of the interventions by allowing for...

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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks Through Firms’ Internal Networks

Giroud, Xavier - 2016

Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...

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The Swiss "job miracle"

Siegenthaler, Michael; Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo - 2014

While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for this "job miracle" were not well understood. As the "miracle" was not anticipated by economic forecasters, it consequently resulted in systematic and persistent forecast errors....

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Regional dependencies in job creation : an efficiency analysis for Western Germany

Fahr, René (contributor); Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results of a stochastic frontier analysis shed new light on extent and regional differences of search...

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