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The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000

, 2016
Rebecca Diamond
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Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon

, 2016
A. Gröger, Yanos Zylberberg
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Age at Arrival, English Proficiency, and Social Assimilation Among U.S. Immigrants.

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009
Hoyt Bleakley, A. Chin
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The Role of Migrant Networks in Labor Migration: The Case of China

, 2003
Yaohui Zhao
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Skilled Labor Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023
This paper revisits the question of how allowing for imperfect substitution among workers with different skill levels affects the results of development accounting.

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Climate Change and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census

Social Science Research Network, 2021
How do rising temperatures affect long-term labor reallocation in developing economies? In this paper we examine how increases in temperature impact structural transformation and urbanization within Indian districts between 1951 and 2011.
Maggie Y. Liu, Yogita Shamdasani, Vis Taraz   +2 more
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Offshoring, Automation, Low-Skilled Immigration, and Labor Market Polarization

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022
We show that the observed polarization of employment toward the high- and low-skill occupations disappears when only native workers are considered. Instead, low-skilled immigration explains employment growth at the low tail of the skill distribution ...
Federico S. Mandelman, A. Zlate
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Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

The American Economic Review
This paper studies how gender-biased technological change in agriculture affected women’s work in twentieth-century Norway. In the 1950s, dairy farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace milking cows by hand, a task typically performed by ...
Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, K. Salvanes
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Role of Governance Quality in Remittances-poverty Relationship: New Insights from Transition Economies

Foreign Trade Review
This study examines the moderating role of institutional quality on a remittance-poverty relationship using a panel of 16 transition economies for 2002–2020.
I. Shah, Ghowhar Ahmad Wani
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A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia

, 2020
This article presents an historical and comparative analysis of the bargaining power and agency conferred upon migrant workers in Australia under distinct policy regimes.
C. Wright, Stephen Clibborn
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