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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"local labor markets"”.
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Essays on local labor markets
… explores the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on local retail employment. The phenomenal expansion of 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 …
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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 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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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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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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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… comprises three autonomous essays on topics in labor economics. The first chapter investigates the impact of socio-cultural, technological, and other transformative factors on employees' labor market decisions over recent decades, focusing specifically on the mobility of young workers in terms …
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
… shape the nature of immigrant incorporation into local labor markets and political and social structures. Dominicans in Lawrence negotiate through these structures by engaging in a broad variety of both transnational and creole practices-involving ties to the Island and cultural adaptations in 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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The Impact of Natural Resource Booms on Local Economic Conditions
… the impacts of natural resource booms on local economic conditions. Each chapter relies upon evidence from the three-state region of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A combination of rising prices and advancements in extraction technologies led to a boom in oil production in 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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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… tariffs are undermined by leakage to unregulated markets. Without commitment to upholding tariffs over the long term, tariffs are reduced over time as importers give in to static incentives. I develop a dynamic empirical framework for quantifying these forces in settings with incomplete regulation …
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Labor market channels: perceptions of Vietnamese immigrants on accessing jobs in Chicago
… Immigrants entering the United States labor markets have historically been subjected to culturally interpreted skills valuation and socialized to work in specific service industries. As a result, many first generation Vietnamese immigrants feel that they have little choice beyond …
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Space and networks in the labor market
… which produces agglomeration economies, i.e., labor market pooling. According to economic theory, advantages are created between geographically clustered, same-industry firms on the demand side, and local workers with industry-specific skills on the supply side. These advantages result in …
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Retention of Post-Secondary Graduates in their City of Study
… communities experiencing acute brain drain and labor shortages. While postsecondary graduates, both domestic and international, represent a strategic pool of skilled labor that could alleviate these pressures, their retention patterns remain poorly understood at the city level, where graduates …
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Essays on veterans disability compensation and the effects of military service
… chapter investigates the correlation between local labor markets and VA Disability Compensation (DC) receipt among National Guard veterans who deployed to a combat zone between 2003 and 2006. I find that veterans from hometowns with low employment-to-population ratios are more likely to …
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Labor market adjustment to globalization, automation, and institutional reform
This thesis analyzes how national and local labor markets re equilibrate after shocks to labor market institutions (Chapter I), demand (II-III), and supply (IV). Chapter I analyzes Germany's 2005 Hartz IV reform, which lowered the generosity of longterm UI benefits available once short-term …
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Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change
… (3) a concentration of skill composition across local labor markets. I then developed an endogenous skill-biased technology adoption model in which firms invest capital more intensively in regions with higher employment share of college graduates, explaining these three channels jointly. Finally …
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Essays on Technology and Trade
… dominance of a few large firms in local labor markets. We propose a new economic geography model featuring granular firms subject to idiosyncratic shocks. We show that average wages increase in the size of the local labor market due to that granularity, and provide a sufficient …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
… issues at the intersection of globalization, labor market, and productivity in developing countries. It is composed of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 studies how a country's trade policy affects competition in its domestic labor market. In a heterogeneous-firm model with oligopsonistic local …
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ESSAYS ON ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
… policies in the context of energy markets and climate policy. The second focuses on the use of remote monitoring technology and its effects on the provision of the local public good of public safety. The third analyzes the effect of imperfect real-world carbon pricing policies on …
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