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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Local Labor Market"”.
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Local Labor Market Adjustment and Economic Impacts After a Major Disaster: Evidence From the 1993 Midwest Flood
… even if the region as a whole recovers quickly. Local economies in the aggregate may recover but not all businesses recover. In Grafton, some businesses returned to their normal functioning soon after the event while others failed due to financial difficulties and a lack of customers. Community …
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The roles of international trade and immigration on U.S. local labor and housing market differentiation
… of international trade and immigration on local labor and housing markets. Housing not only relates to individual welfare, but also affects the performances of local industries, such as construction, real estate, and mortgage financial service industries. Therefore, understanding the …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
<p>People live and work in local markets spatially distinct from one another, yet space is absent from most economic models of the national labor market. Workers choose the markets in which they will participate, but there are costs to mobility. Furthermore, cities are heterogeneous in a number of …
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Wage suppression of married women induced by geographic immobility
… gap.</p> <p>To the extent that wives have less market human capital than their husbands, married women may be forced to optimize their employment mainly in the local labor market, unlike their husbands who are more likely to optimize their employment in the national labor market. If this is the …
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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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Homeownership And Unemployment: Outcomes And Implications
… three papers on the effect of homeownership on labor market outcomes. In the first paper, I developed a one-sector two-region endogenous job search model and show that when jobs arrive from both local labor market and non-local labor market, homeowners: are less likely to be unemployed than …
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Future Work: Denver Metropolitan Area Jobs in a Globalizing Economy
… and intangible impacts on business and labor markets at the local level, that are of critical importance to communities and the people who inhabit them. While impacts of global economic change on local labor markets have been anticipated, there is little insight in the research …
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The Meaning and Use of Associate Degrees in the Employment of IT Technicians
… (1977) theory of education as an institution, labor market sociology, the sociology of work, and organizational theory to examine the role of social context in how employers make sense of the associate degree for IT technician jobs. I conducted comparative case studies of contrasting labor …
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Human Capital in Appalachia: An Analysis of Vulnerability, Resilience, and Skills in Preparation of a Greener Economy
… throughout the region and strongly related to local labor market demand for the skills required to complete non-routine cognitive tasks. Resilient labor markets hold a comparative advantage over their less resilient counterparts in twelve skills. These skills are highly prevalent in growing and …
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Human Capital Specificity and Corporate Capital Structure
… across employers--for incumbent workers in a local labor market. My results indicate that the opening of a new manufacturing plant in a given county leads to a 2.6-3.9% increase in the leverage of existing manufacturing firms in the county, relative to the leverage of manufacturing firms in an …
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Manufacturing firms and local jobs : the influence of competitive strategies on labor in the garment sector of San Francisco El Alto, Guatemala
… El Alto's garment sector has spread across the local population. It makes evident how the family-owned firms that comprise the local industry have learned to built the strategies they use in order to be competitive at their core set of markets, and how these strategies have influenced the …
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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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College-for-all meets skills gap: Millennials’ decisions to pursue certificates in skilled trades
… college. Considering severe shortage of skilled labor in the geographic area of the college, there is great need for better understanding of ways to alleviate the labor shortage by attracting more young adults to the in-demand fields. Therefore, this case study sought to examine millennial …
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Programs on Paper: An Examination of Virginia's Service Delivery Area Job Training Partnership Act Title II-A Job Training Plans
… in the areas of linking training to the local labor market and using overall evaluation. The SDAs did not use the plans to distinguish their local level activities, opting most often to meet minimal compliance with plan guidelines as to the information provided. The individual being …
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Immigration, Local Labor Markets, and Earnings Inequality in Micropolitan America
… paper, I examine the impacts of immigration and local labor market characteristics on earnings inequality among full-time year-round workers in micropolitan areas in the United States for the years 2006-2008. Micropolitan areas are essentially small town communities with populations between …
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A Study of Labor Force and Employment in the Omaha Metropolitan Area in Light of Recent Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation: 1970 Census
… major societal problems. As a result, more collaboration is expected between government and business as each requests or demands the other’s cooperation is dealing with these problems. This study focuses on one socioeconomic problem within this environment, equal employment opportunity, and its …
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Labor and Migration: Essays on Opportunities, Vulnerabilities, and Worker Agency in Emerging Markets
… is one of the most significant challenges facing labor markets of emerging economies in the Global South. Workers in these countries are amongst the most vulnerable and at-risk populations, whether they choose to remain and work in their countries of origin or migrate to other destinations. My …
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Secondary and postsecondary vocational education in North Carolina: student characteristics, outcomes, and program similarities and differences
… vocational programs as well as assessment of local labor market needs are necessary. Clarification of the purpose of vocational education within program categories was recommended. Future research comparing characteristics of students and program similarities on a national basis was …
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Labor Market Dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region
… consists of three manuscripts analyzing labor market dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region. The first manuscript examines the dynamic effects of national, regional, and local labor market shocks on labor force participation rates in Appalachia. A dynamic factor model with …
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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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