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The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects of the pandemic, the result has been very large changes both to the numbers of those coming for...
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We investigate the impact of immigration on productivity in the UK, using newly published ONS data on employees of non …-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …
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study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
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benign (or even positive) effects on productivity, which is one reason it has endured. Compared to other shocks that strike …
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How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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