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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Labor reallocation"”.
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Labor reallocation, Productivity and Output Volatility in Japan
The dissertation offers an analysis of the labor reallocation process in Japan and sheds light on its relationship with productivity and output volatility during the 1990s, the period of sluggish growth. The first chapter provides descriptive statistics of job reallocation rates among relatively …
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Essays On The Effects Of Oil Price Shocks And Monetary Shocks On Labor Reallocation
… positive oil price shock triggers costly reallocation of labor across sectors and regions. Yet, no evidence of asymmetry was found in the response of job creation (job destruction) to positive and negative oil price shocks. Moreover, we found significant evidence of asymmetries in the …
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Essays on Structural Transformation, Productivity, and Development
… intensity in the personal service sector, and labor market frictions are the most important channels. By revealing the growth pattern of the service sector in the early stages of development, the paper thereby contributes to the growing literature on the rising importance of the service …
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The role of skilled labor pool in driving firms to agglomerate: an empirical study on China's policy experiment
… agglomeration forces operating through skilled labor mobility. Specifically, this research uses a natural experiment in China regarding to skilled labor migration liberalization to examine the impact of skilled labor pool and knowledge availability on China’s industrial agglomeration. The …
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Three essays on empirical corporate finance
… empirical questions in corporate finance and labor markets. In the first essay, I use a matched employer-employee dataset linked with hand-collected data on M&A activity in Brazil to examine how rms reorganize their labor force after takeovers. I show that M&As are associated with a …
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Essays in macroeconomics
… studies the impact of a housing bust on regional labor reallocation and the labor market. I document an empirical fact, which suggests that, by increasing the fraction of households with negative housing equity, a housing bust hinders interregional mobility. I then study a multi-region economy …
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Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics
… to evaluate the impact of sectoral shocks on labor market dynamics and welfare. Within a broad class of dynamic discrete choice models that allows for arbitrary time-invariant heterogeneity across workers, I show that knowledge of steady-state intersectoral worker flows over various time …