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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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Immigration and the Slope of the Labor Demand Curve : The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in a Model of Regional Labor Markets

Ariu, Andrea; Müller, Tobias; Nguyen, Tuan - 2023

is halved when the across-firm and across-region reallocation mechanisms are at work. Finally, both theory and …

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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage …

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Skilled Scalable Services : The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2021

Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...

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Import Competition and U.S. Sentiment Toward China

Arezki, Rabah; Le, Duong Trung; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024

We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...

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Gender Gaps in the Urban Wage Premium

Elass, Kenza; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Schluter, … - 2024

We examine the economic geography of gender wage gaps to understand the role that location plays in gender earning differences. Using panelised administrative data for the universe of French workers, our findings indicate that women benefit relatively more from density than men, with an urban...

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Biodiversity and geography

Rauscher, Michael; Barbier, Edward B. - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...

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The Costs of Job Displacement and the Demand for Industry-Specific Human Capital

Milgrom, Maor - 2025

long-term losses remain unclear. A leading theory ties earnings losses to the demand laid-off workers face for their … industry-specific human capital, yet evidence in support of this theory is lacking. This paper proposes a novel method for … theory. Within shrinking industries, these workers experience earnings losses that are 76% higher than workers in occupations …

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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...

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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

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