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Are the labor market changes from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces...
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We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy to instrument exposure to exports using exposure to foreign demand shocks and validate it showing that the labor market responses are consistent with those expected from demand...
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labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …
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This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...
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The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within … version covers 115 countries, observed 4 times on average. We use the data to show how the nature of jobs and their allocation …
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We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favorable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...
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away from existing jobs is another key determinant of equilibrium, because a worker with an existing job has a better … their employers, a sign of wage posting. We find that another third bargained over pay before accepting their current jobs …. And about 40 percent of workers could have remained on their earlier jobs at the time they accepted their current jobs. …
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, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs, raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics …
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It is almost certain that the world economy is entering a recession of historic proportions; how bad things get will depend on how governments manage the Covid-19 pandemic. At the core of the problem lies a very difficult choice: whether to "flatten the curve" of the epidemic or whether to...
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incentives to contribute to mandatory insurance programs and to create formal jobs; 2) they can be regressive since … a world of labor characterized by persistent low productivity jobs, more frequent labor market transitions including …
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