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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"Labor markets"”.
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Technology and labor markets
… structural change that has affected U.S. labor markets since the mid 90s-accelerated during the Great Recession and contributed to the long-lasting increase in unemployment since 2007. I show that the local labor markets that were more exposed to this structural change experienced worst …
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Essays on local labor markets
… Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and possible endogeneity of …
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Essays in online labor markets
This thesis explores the economics of online labor markets. The first paper evaluates a market intervention that sought to improve efficiency within the world's largest online labor market. The second paper provides an illustration of how online labor markets can serve as a platform for helping …
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Urban labor markets and commuting
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Essays on European labor markets
… relative to natives in highly protected labor markets. This may be the case if immigrants, being new to the country, are less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights. I test this hypothesis drawing on evidence for the EU and on two natural …
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Firm strategies in scientific labor markets
… element of any regional innovation project: the labor market for scientific and technical professionals. The foundation for this study is a typology of regions based on regional specialization and firm clustering. I use this typology to answer one key research question: how specialization and …
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ESSAYS ON FIRMS AND LABOR MARKETS
… behaviors in entrepreneurship and the U.S. labor market. I examine how financial constraints affect business formation along with the role government policies play in supporting entrepreneurial ventures. Then I analyze the changes in labor supply directly following the Covid-19 pandemic. My …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets
… prices and in the absence of wealth effects on labor supply, transfers and purchases have no effect on aggregate output and employment. Under sticky prices and no wealth effects, fiscal policy is redundant to monetary policy. Alternatively, in the presence of wealth effects, multipliers for both …
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LOCAL LABOR MARKETS EXPOSURE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
… have begun to consider its potential impact on labor markets. The current debate among researchers is centered on whether AI will ultimately produce net new job gains or losses and what type of workers will benefit or be displaced. While no consensus has developed yet within the literature on …
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Essays on Government Transfers and Labor Markets
… To accomplish this, I use an incomplete asset markets model with family labor supply and aggregate fluctuations whose predicted spousal labor supply elasticities with respect to transfers are in line with microeconomic estimates both in aggregate and across subpopulations. In this model, …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes. The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
This thesis contributes to the study of firms and labor markets in macroeconomics. The first two chapters argue that analyzing how workers with varied skills are organized in production – opening the “black box” of firms – provides new insights about macroeconomic outcomes and trends. The first …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
… the recent rise in services trade and changes in labor market outcomes in different countries. We develop a theoretical framework where trade in services arises from the spatial unbundling of workers' task output. Transmission costs endogenously determine the magnitude of between-sector task trade …
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Essays on the economics of labor markets
… consists of three chapters on the economics of labor markets. Each chapter explores an aspect of the distributional consequences of labor market shocks due to changes in trade, regulations, or technology. The first chapter investigates the extent to which geographic variation in wage growth …
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Essays on international economics and labor markets
… essays related to international economics and labor markets. The first essay, with Francisco Gallego, looks at sudden stops, a main feature of developing countries in the last decades, and their effects on these countries. Using sector-level data on job flows for four Latin American countries, …
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Essays on Financial and Labor Markets with Frictions
… chapters, is devoted to exploring financial and labor markets with frictions.</p><p>Chapter I: Unemployment and Capital Misallocation. The recent recession was associated not only with a marked disruption in the credit market, but also a sharp deterioration in labor market conditions, as …
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Essays on Spatial Labor Markets and Public Policies
This thesis consists of three essays on spatial labor markets and public policies. I study successively the interactions of space with job search, demography and housing policy. In the first essay, I develop a framework to study theoretically and quantitatively the welfare attributes of spatial …
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Essays on the macroeconomics of the labor markets
… them. When a match is formed, the disutility of labor is drawn randomly and observed privately by the worker. An employment contract is an incentive-compatible mechanism that satisfies a participation constraint on the worker's side. I first show that in a static setting the competitive search …
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Essays on the economics of local labor markets
This thesis studies the economics of local labor markets. There are three chapters in the thesis, and each chapter studies how economic outcomes are affected by local labor market conditions. The first chapter studies the incidence of local labor demand shocks. This chapter starts from the …
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Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets
… references, and word of mouth information in labor markets. The first essay examines the importance of job connections for internal migrants. In this chapter, I develop a theoretical model where labor market networks provide labor market information with less noise than information obtained in …
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