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- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers... View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
medications?" In citing the need for more doctors and nurses, David Stahl comments that "it could be a way to help open immigration in this country." Michael Robbins adds, "Healthcare has been a closed guild." David Othmer cited "the maze... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to live where they choose, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
the perspective. Sandeep offered that one of the key factors to be considered global demographics. “You have an aging population in the West, which when coupled with increased barriers on cross border immigration would result in... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
became immediately popular, but it did not displace the joint stock form. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-037.pdf Skilled Immigration and the Employment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
U.S. frontier. To address reverse-causality concerns, reduced-form specifications exploit exogenous changes in U.S. immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less developed economies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. Immigration increased natives’ View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
created. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55573 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract— We use an experiment to show that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer science, to fill the employment... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We also explore alternative mechanisms—changes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
show that the empirical results are driven entirely by newly eligible households that did not enroll, suggesting uninsured risk from leaving wage employment is the primary barrier to entrepreneurship for this population. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican government oil revenue rose after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
discover how immigration law affects the number of such patents, and explain how, under certain conditions, patenting traditional medicine can mutually benefit both corporate firms and indigenous communities. Where's The Proof? The... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne