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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"labor demand"”.
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Characterizing tailings professional labor demand
… Tailings Management (GISTM) places significant demand on tailings professionals worldwide. Given these pressures, this study addresses the question: is the current tailings professional labor pool sufficient to provide the specialized labor needed to meet new guidance designed to make tailings …
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The effects of minimum wage increases on labor demand growth
… of the minimum wage on Colombian Manufacturing labor using the estimation of conditional and unconditional labor demand models, as well as the panel structure of the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS). Findings show significant long-run minimum wage elasticities in labor demand: 0.638, …
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US Labor Demand: a Discourse Analysis on the "Hidden Force" behind Illegal Immigration
… deceive employers to secure work. They disrupt labor markets by lowering wages which displaces lower class US workers. The illegal immigrants and their families abuse social services that they do not pay into at the US taxpayers expense. They form ethnic enclaves, and those who remain in the US …
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Growth and change in the computer industry : impacts on plant location and labor demand
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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An Econometric Analysis of the Relative Share of Labor, Demand and Cross Demand Elasticities, and Elasticities of Substitution for Inputs: A Case Study in the Chiang Mai Valley
… factors which influence the relative share of labor for farmers in the Chiang Mai Valley, Thailand. Data from a World Bank survey of farmers in the Chiang Mai Valley are used. The data are separated into two samples, one for those farmers using animal power and one using tractor power. In …
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Effects of weather-related disasters on U.S. highway, street and bridge construction sector labor markets
… road networks after disasters creates a sudden demand shock for construction industry services and labor. The term demand shock is used throughout this thesis to indicate changes in the demand for labor due to exogenous factors like weather-related disasters. The researcher hypothesizes that the …
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Heterogeneity in regional economic models: disaggregation and integration
… 1990; Israilevich et al., 1997) to which a demand system with age and income parameters is integrated. The extended model addresses concerns about household heterogeneity that has been limited to one representative in the existing REIMs. The initial testing is conducted with a model for the …
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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 papers in urban and regional economic and development
… per capita personal income dataset for 700 U.S. labor market areas from 1969 to 2009. The results reveal that the collection of high income areas, termed the ""rich places club,"" was formed in the 1980s, and the share of the rich places club stabilized at around 10-12% of total labor market …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation finds the role of industry capital intensity and firm productivity in the differential choices of global sourcing such as vertical FDI and foreign outsourcing. Also, this dissertation finds that input …
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Essays on the interactions of local economies and their macroeconomic implications
… of macroeconomics. Chapter 1 argues that local labor demand shocks are amplified by migration. I document that within-U.S. migration causes a large reduction in the unemployment rate of the receiving city, over several years. To establish the causal effect of inmigration, I construct a plausibly …
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International trade's effect on the labor market: How does it affect wages?
… influence wages by changing the elasticity of labor demand and by changing profits which affects wages in a rent sharing environment. The study also divides the manufacturing product market into three sectors: (1) high-tech, (2) a common technology sector whose technology is found throughout …
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Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
… three chapters on imperfect competition in the labor market. The first chapter (joint with Nikolaj Harmon) explores the relationship between an individual's wages and the quality of her opportunities at other firms (her outside options). To overcome the fact that many factors that shift an …
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Spatial Features of Labor Markets and Links to the Housing Market
… comprises three papers on spatial features of labor markets and links to the housing market. The first two papers look at how a local parental leave policy and the neighborhood in which one resides can influence women's decision to work. One paper shows that New Jersey's 2009 family leave …
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Three essays on regional economic development
… to entrepreneurship. Chapter 1 focuses on the labor demand side of regional entrepreneurship, finding the introduction of state EITC policies reduces the number of new establishments and the number of establishment expansions relative to counties in states without such a policy. In Chapter 2, …
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A hierarchical decision-making approach to resource management and valuation: The case of conjunctive water use
… to improve efficiency and also to increase labor demand are seen as critical issues in India. Therefore, two alternative policy objective (welfare) specifications are considered: (i) maximizing net return to water and land (profit) and (ii) aggregate value added (which includes gross returns …
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Essays in labor and human capital investment in development economics
This dissertation presents three essays on labor and development economics. Each chapter examines a factor that affects household labor demand and supply for each household member and its implications in low-and middle- income countries. Research in this dissertation takes advantage of detailed …
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Essays in Labor and Finance
… different productivity levels derive from their labor market power by estimating the effect of unanticipated firm-level labor demand shocks on wages and employment at publicly listed U.S. firms. Productive firms face lower labor supply elasticities on average, and still lower elasticities for …
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Essays on Technological Change and Labor Market Dynamics: Causal Evidence from Remote Work and Automation
… investigates how technological changes reshape labor market outcomes in the United States, focusing on two transformative forces: remote work and automation. Across two empirical studies, I provide causal evidence on how these technologies influence workforce composition, labor market …
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Economic well-being and the family
… the well-being of families under changing labor market conditions, changes in the legal environment and changes in public policy. The first chapter asks how women's fertility decisions are affected by changing labor market conditions. Chapter two examines whether divorce shocks persist into …
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