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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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relationships among the standard hourly wage rate, hourly earnings (including overtime), the overtime premium, and the length of … overtime hours. They find that when overtime is accounted for, average hourly wage earnings are fairly uniform across firms in …
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, job mobility, the minimum wage, industrial composition and the public/private sector dichotomy. The analysis covers the …
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domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment … polarization - that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within the …
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employment polarization - that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within …
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employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within …
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impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the observed change in the … value, and the absorption of 86% of this net job loss via a corresponding decrease in the overall employment rate …
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impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the observed change in the … value, and the absorption of 86% of this net job loss via a corresponding decrease in the overall employment rate …
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employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
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The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great …
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