How has the “China shock” affected workers in Brazil?
Tomás R. Martínez and Ursula Mello examine the link between trade shocks and asymmetrical labor income risk.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Why local housing markets matter for immigration and import competition effects
Christoph Albert and Joan Monràs explain why immigration and trade shocks have different impacts on regional economies.
What is the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market?
Using a structural model for the U.S. economy, Joan Llull empirically quantifies the importance of two mechanisms: the differential labor market competition induced by immigration on male and female workers, and the availability of cheaper childcare services.
How Colombian firms responded to new apprenticeship regulations
Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, and Arthur Seibold investigate firm responses to apprenticeship programs and how firms can be effectively incentivized to train apprentices.
Bidding for the better jobs: gender differences in competitiveness
Andrej Angelovski, Jordi Brandts, and Werner Güth conduct a novel experiment in which men and women obtain ranked positions in stylized hierarchies by bidding against each other.
Who is Afraid of Machines?
Sotiris Blanas, Gino Gancia and Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee study how the widespread use of different machines affected different groups of workers in the recent past.
