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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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-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …
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While citizen opinion polls reveal that Europeans are concerned about the labour market consequences of technological progress, the understanding of the actual significance of this relationship is still imperfect. This paper assesses the impact of robot adoption on employment in Europe....
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This paper analyses data on industrial robots in European manufacturing sectors, focusing on their applications and characteristics, their distribution over countries and sectors and the main factors that are correlated with robot adoption such as wage levels and robot prices. We argue that,...
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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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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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-in-difference approach, this paper examines the implications of South Africa's electricity crises on jobs, capital investment, and exporting … across manufacturing firms in the country. Our results show robust evidence that the electricity crises have destroyed jobs …
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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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