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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization …

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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of different skill types or to capital. Factors of production have well …-defined comparative advantage across tasks, which governs the pattern of substitution between skill groups. Technological change can: (1 …

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The Rise of Healthcare Jobs

Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Mahoney, Neale; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Healthcare employment has grown more than twice as fast as the labor force since 1980, overtaking retail trade to become the largest industry by employment in 2009. We document key facts about the rise of healthcare jobs. Earnings for healthcare workers have risen nearly twice as fast as those...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium …

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Earnings Instability

Ganong, Peter; Noel, Pascal J.; Patterson, Christina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper uses high-frequency administrative data to show that the majority of U.S. workers experience substantial month-to-month fluctuations in pay, even within ongoing employment relationships. This earnings instability is pervasive, but it has been masked in past analysis of annual data....

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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery

Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...

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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...

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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity

Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...

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